Trump creates more undocumented immigrants? More than one million people lose their legal residence status

NBC analyzed on the 19th that President Trump vowed to launch large-scale deportations after taking office, but the result was to create more undocumented immigrants; more than 1 million foreigners who were allowed to enter the United States for legal short-term residence under different programs have now been defined as illegal immigrants by Trump.

31-year-old Haitian woman Florndjie Camey left her homeland in pursuit of a better future. According to the humanitarian parole program launched by the Biden administration, which allows legal residence and work in the United States for two years, she found her aunt as a sponsor and settled in Miami, where she started a new life as a counter cashier. The humanitarian parole program was canceled by the Trump administration a few days ago, and more than 1 million people who entered the country legally like Camey lost their legal residence status.

Angela Kelley, a consultant at the American Immigration Law Center who served as a senior immigration consultant at the Department of Homeland Security in the Biden administration, said that Trump’s policy is the best example of a “self-fulfilling prophecy” that deprives people of their legal status and turns them into undocumented immigrants who can be deported.

Karen Tumlin, founder of the Justice Action Center, said that the Trump administration has turned a large number of people into undocumented immigrants through de-legalizing and terminating work permits early.

Kelly said that Trump once said that the targets for deportation were criminals, but now he has created a larger number of targets, “but these people are not criminals, they entered the country legally.”

On May 30, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to revoke the legal residence and work status of more than 500,000 participants in the CHNV parole program. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently issued a notice requiring parole program participants to immediately self-deport.

Steve Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, a conservative think tank that advocates restricting immigration, expressed support for the Trump administration’s decision.

Camarota said that the program, which was originally a parole program, has become permanent, which is equivalent to the problem created by the border crisis during Biden’s tenure. He said that if no action is taken to end the program, it means that reality is not being taken seriously.

Cami has applied for “temporary protected status” (TPS), and there is no other way to stay in the United States legally. She said that she would not stay in the United States as an undocumented immigrant and planned to move to other countries. In short, she would not go back to Haiti.