Utah's Venezuelan community says the state's decision to sue to halt a humanitarian parole plan makes no sense since it has been successful and decreased border encounters.
from Haiti, Nicaragua and Cuba who are caught crossing illegally.
The program appeared to be successful prior to the states' lawsuit based on an earlier version limited to Venezuelans that was announced in October. Since then, Homeland Security Utah immigration lawyer Carlos Trujillo said a number of Venezuelan migrants have contacted his firm, Trujillo Acosta Law, after it conducted a Facebook Live session regarding the parole program. Many had already started their journey to the U.S. but stopped after the program was announced.
"DHS, under the false pretense of preventing aliens from unlawfully crossing the border between the ports of entry, has effectively created a new visa program — without the formalities of legislation from Congress," thestates. " face substantial, irreparable harms from the department's abuse of its parole authority, which allow potentially hundreds of thousands of additional aliens to enter each of their already overwhelmed territories.
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