June 12, 2025

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SAN DIEGO, CA — Haitian Bridge Alliance strongly condemns the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to terminate the CHNV parole program, impacting over 530,000 individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. This includes tens of thousands of Haitian families who arrived lawfully under the program, built lives, contributed to their communities, and relied on the stability it provided. Instead of offering compassion and continued opportunity, DHS has chosen cruelty—revoking legal status, stripping employment authorization, and pushing people to self-deport via an app, with the hollow promise of a $1,000 incentive.

This is not policy—it is punishment. It is a calculated move by DHS under Secretary Kristi Noem to dismantle lawful pathways that served both humanitarian and strategic purposes. The CHNV parole program helped to reduce irregular migration while supporting economic integration, especially for communities fleeing violence, political instability, and natural disasters. Now, these same communities are being forced into chaos with no individualized review, no legal recourse, and no due process.

“Over 530,000 people—including thousands of Haitians—built lives here and contributing to our economy under lawful parole.  Now DHS is tearing those lives apart, forcing families into chaos and pushing vulnerable people to self-deport while importing White South Africans under the guise of a genocide that has not been corroborated by no international body or human rights groups,” said Guerline Jozef, Executive Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance. “We urge Congress to pass comprehensive immigration bill to legalize those folks.”

Haitian Bridge Alliance is calling for an immediate halt to all termination and deportation notices until fair, case-by-case reviews are conducted. We demand the restoration of parole and work authorization for those impacted, a full racial equity review of DHS enforcement practices, and robust congressional oversight to ensure this never happens again. Families should not be torn apart by a policy that offers no pathway forward—only fear, confusion, and exile.

In the case of Haiti, since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 , the country has spiraled into one of the gravest humanitarian crises in its modern history. The political vacuum left in Moïse’s absence has empowered violent gangs to consolidate power across the country. Today, approximately  85% of Port-au-Prince , the capital, is under the de facto control of heavily armed groups who operate with near-total impunity. According to data from the United Nations, gang violence has displaced more than 1.3 million  people, led to nearly 5,600 deaths since 2024 , and subjected countless civilians to rape, torture, kidnappings, and extrajudicial killings. The U.S. has acknowledged the gravity of the crisis and has designated Haiti as a Level 4, Do Not Travel  nation for American citizen and has financed the failed Kenyan led mission to address the insecurity crisis. 

We will continue to organize, litigate, and speak truth to power. No app, no notice, no political decision should override basic human rights and dignity. Haitian Bridge Alliance stands in unwavering solidarity with all CHNV parolees and will fight tirelessly to ensure justice is not only promised—but delivered.

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ABOUT HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE

Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), also known as “The Bridge”, is a grassroots community organization that advocates for fair and humane immigration policies, foreign policy, and provides migrants and immigrants with humanitarian, legal, and social services, with a particular focus on Black migrants, the Haitian community, women and girls, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and survivors of torture and other human rights abuses. HBA also seeks to elevate the issues unique to Black migrants and builds solidarity and collective movement toward policy change. Anpil men chay pa lou (“Many hands make the load light”).
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