Donald Trump revokes legal status for 530,000 Cubans and other nationalities in latest immigration crackdown

The move aims to stem the movement of people from South America and Central America to the US. Photo: Getty/Stock image.

US President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration.

The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year “parole” granted to the migrants under former President Joe Biden that allowed them to enter the country by air if they had US sponsors.