The Trump administration will strip the temporary legal status of more than half a million legal migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Launched in 2022, the program first applied to Venezuelans before it was expanded to additional countries.
The Biden administration had argued that CHNV would help reduce illegal crossings at the southern border and allow better vetting of people entering the country amid an influx of migrants entering through the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump's Department of Homeland Security criticized the Biden administration on Friday, arguing that the program failed to achieve its goals, the BBC reported.
The agency said in a statement that Biden officials had "granted them [migrants] opportunities to compete for American jobs and undercut American workers; forced career civil servants to promote the programs even when fraud was identified; and then blamed Republicans in Congress for the chaos that ensued and the crime that followed."
Trump's Department of Homeland Security criticized the Biden administration, arguing that the program failed to achieve its goals. (Getty Images)
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Trump's efforts to remove legal and illegal migrants from the U.S. since taking office in January as part of his immigration agenda have faced numerous legal obstacles.
The Trump administration is also reportedly dismantling internal watchdogs for DHS, including its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which investigated allegations of abuse and discrimination within immigration enforcement, according to Bloomberg News.
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