Defend Legal Humanitarian Protections for Migrants

With the passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act, border security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have unprecedented funds to ramp up a mass deportation campaign. The budget for Immigration enforcement is now greater than what Russia spent on its military while waging its invasion of Ukraine in 2024.

The Trump administration has also been working to revoke the legal status of immigrants lawfully in the United States.

As part of the aggressive campaign to dismantle humanitarian protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, the Trump administration has canceled Humanitarian Parole for 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. His administration is also attacking Temporary Protected Status, another humanitarian program, for Haitians, Venezuelans, Hondurans, and Nicaraguans, prematurely ending the legal statuses of over a million immigrants.

This is especially egregious in Haiti, where gangs have seized 60 percent of the country’s capital and are now expanding outward to control more territory bringing death and destruction. In Venezuela, food scarcity and a lack of job opportunities has forced roughly 7.7 million people into exile since 2014, or roughly 20% of its population. The Venezuelan government’s use of military tribunals, suppression of the free press, and extrajudicial killings have been on the rise since the Maduro regime stole the presidential election in 2024. Nicaragua is witnessing the ramifications of an authoritarian regime that has removed term limits, imprisoned political opponents, and used lethal force against protestors. Cubans are experiencing their worst economic crisis since independence.

Prematurely ending these protections disregards human dignity and international responsibility. Write to your members of Congress to urge humanitarian protections for migrants.