2023-04-27 21:22:17
Text: Hugo Leon
A statement from the United States Department of Homeland Security released today informs that that nation will expand the family reunification program currently available, including four other nationalities among the beneficiaries.
The measures are announced, according to that government department, to further reduce illegal migration throughout the Western Hemisphere, to significantly expand legal avenues for protection and facilitate the safe, orderly and humane processing of migrants.
Among the provisions is to modernize the existing processes for family reunification from Cuba and Haiti and extend it to nationals of Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
This application is different from the humanitarian parole, specifies the State Department site.
The initiative will allow US citizens or those who permanently reside in Cuba and Haiti to request their family members to enter the United States, with approved immigrant visas.
On the other hand, Washington promised to continue accepting up to 30,000 people from the current beneficiaries of the humanitarian parole, namely Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua.
Likewise, they indicated that appointment capabilities will be expanded through the CBPOne application so that immigrants who are stranded at the border can appear at a port of entry to the United States.
These measures constitute actions prior to the elimination of the so-called Title 42 next May, something that could have an impact on the arrival of more immigrants illegally to the United States, according to the report by the Reuters news agency.
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