December 13, 2025

Media Contacts:
Communications HBA, media@haitianbridge.org

San Diego, CA. — Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) condemns the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to terminate the Family Reunification Parole (FRP) programs for families from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras and strip work authorization from people who relied on these pathways. It is a white nationalist attack on Black and Brown immigrant communities dressed up in bureaucratic language about “security” and “common-sense policy.

This move follows Executive Order 14165, which ordered DHS to terminate categorical parole programs as part of the administration’s broader anti-immigrant agenda. Under the Federal Register notice, all people paroled into the United States through FRP will see their parole terminated on a fixed date unless they have a pending green card application filed by an arbitrary deadline; once parole is terminated, their work permits will be revoked and they will be told to “self-deport” through a CBP app in exchange for meager “exit bonuses.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) previously acknowledged FRP promoted family unity, reduced irregular migration, and supported stability through remittances.

“Let’s be clear: this is not about security. This is about an administration using racist, nativist scare tactics to dismantle lawful family reunification and terrorize Black and Brown immigrants,” said Guerline Jozef, Executive Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance. “Family Reunification Parole was created to keep families together and provide a safe, legal pathway while people waited for visas that the U.S. government itself told them would take years. Now those same families—many of them Haitian—are being punished for trusting the system. It is state violence, it is anti-Black, and it is an unacceptable betrayal of basic human dignity.” 

This latest decision comes on the heels of the administration’s move to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, Ethiopia, and other countries—another deliberate blow to long-standing Black and Brown immigrant communities in the United States who have contributed significantly economically. 

HBA calls for:

• Immediate reversal of the termination of all Family Reunification Parole programs;

• Automatic extension of parole and work authorization for all current FRP beneficiaries while Congress debates any legislative changes;

• Legislative protections to prevent any administration from weaponizing parole policy to target specific nationalities and racialized communities; and pass comprehensive immigration reform to create pathway to green card and citizenship for effected groups, including TPS recipients;

• Robust oversight by Congress and civil society into the racial and nationality-based impacts of these decisions.

Haitian Bridge Alliance urges impacted families to seek legal advice immediately, avoid signing away their rights under pressure, and connect with trusted community organizations for support and advocacy.

                    
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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 build solidarity and a collective movement toward policy change. Anpil men chay pa lou (“Many hands make the load light”).
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