A new racist blow from the Trump-Rubio alliance against immigrants from Cuba and other Latin American countries hoping to achieve family reunification through U.S. immigration programs came on Friday, with yet another piece of bad news as a year-end "gift."
The Department of Homeland Security stated categorically that it was "terminating all Family Reunification Parole (FRP) programs for immigrants from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras, as well as their immediate family members."
The decision impacts residents of Miami, where large Hispanic communities have settled for decades and have relied heavily on family reunification parole programs.
According to U.S. media, the measure not only affects residency processes but also other key immigration benefits within family reunification programs, such as work permits. Once an immigrant's parole period ends under these programs, their employment authorization based on that parole will also be revoked.
Foreigners without legal grounds to remain in the United States after the programs end must leave the country before their departure permit expires.
In the week the world celebrated International Human Rights Day, amid threats of more wars, piracy in the Caribbean, dispossession, and restrictions, Latino migrants received only bad news, more uncertainty, humiliation, and the ultimatum to leave "peacefully," self-deport, or Trump's offer to try to stay if they pay a million dollars—a form of blackmail for living in the U.S.
This is Washington's path to "becoming great again," forcibly expelling over a million migrants from the Trump and Rubio camps in the name of the hegemonic and exclusionary "America First" policy.
Everyone is lumped together as illegals, deportable, or "criminals from the South," while flagrant human rights violations from the White House serve white magnates, lining the pockets of the mass deportation business, prison operators, and those involved in ground transportation and phantom or contracted airline services—all at the expense of the suffering of communities and families who will be forcibly separated or lose all hope of ever reuniting with their loved ones.
