Trump expands immigration crackdown

What happened The Trump administration ramped up its hard-line immigration strategy this week, scrapping a Biden-era program that let a half-million Latin Americans and Haitians enter the U.S. legally and moving to use federal tax data to identify and deport suspected undocumented migrants. Under the CHNV program, applicants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela were allowed to fly to the U.S. and quickly secure work permits, so long as they passed security screenings and had a financial sponsor. The 532,000 migrants who have used the program since 2022 now have 30 days to self-deport. Tricia McLaughlin, a Homeland Security spokeswoman, said the program’s termination was “a return to America First.” CBS News reported that the administration has also quietly paused processing green-card applications from immigrants with refugee or asylum status, and…

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