something seemed odd to me about all of this, so i did some digging and this is what i found:
so the two main points i get out of the above link are:
1. this is a temporary thing: come to the U.S. for a period of two years to live and work lawfully
2. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) grants DHS the discretion to temporarily allow certain non-U.S. citizens to enter or remain in the United States if they apply for admission but lack any legal basis for admission
in short, it is temporary and it is at the discretion of DHS. that translates to it has an expiration date and the government can cancel it away at any point.
it appears that the the biggest driving factor behind it being cancelled is the abuse of the program:
in the staff report (linked in the above article and also direct linked below), there is even more interesting revelations (bolded portion by me):
• USCIS has approved CHNV supporters who admitted to receiving means-tested public
benefits as part of their income listed as evidence that they can support a CHNV alien.19
Thus, American taxpayers may actually end up supporting CHNV aliens despite Biden-
Harris Administration claims that those aliens will have supporters in the U.S.
• USCIS has refused to tell the Committee whether it has any mechanism or remedy to
ensure that CHNV supporters fulfill their agreement to provide the CHNV alien financial
support during the time for which the alien is paroled in the U.S.20 If the approved
supporter does not financially support the CHNV alien, that burden will fall to American
taxpayers.
• USCIS has confirmed CHNV supporters who are aliens in the United States on a short-
term basis and who are subject to removal from the U.S. at any time, such as aliens on
temporary visas, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients, and even parolees themselves.21 As a result,
CHNV is a supercharged chain migration program in which foreign nationals in the U.S.
on a temporary basis can sponsor additional foreign nationals to travel to the U.S. on a
temporary basis, who can then sponsor additional foreign nationals to enter the country,
and so on.
• USCIS has approved CHNV applications to allow aliens into the country who do not
even reside in one of the four CHNV countries.22
• Sex traffickers have potentially used CHNV to exploit women and girls. A fraud analysis
of CHNV applications revealed that some applications that were sent from the same IP
addresses were submitted on behalf of a high proportion of female CHNV aliens. In one
such case, 21 supporter applications were submitted from the same IP address on behalf
of 18 females and only three males. At least six of the females were under the age of 18.
The DHS analysis, which was completed in May of 2024, documented substantial evidence of fraudulent
activity in the Biden-Harris Administration’s CHNV program. For example:
• The same Social Security Number was used on at least 20 different CHNV supporter
applications. This happened more than 3,200 times.
• The same phone number was used on at least 20 different supporter applications. This
happened more than 3,300 times.
• The same email address was used on at least 20 different supporter applications. This
happened nearly 2,000 times.
• The same 184-word text response to a question on the supporter application was used on
more than 1,800 such applications by nearly 190 different CHNV supporters.
• More than 460 nonexistent zip codes were used on supporter applications on behalf of
more than 2,800 CHNV aliens.
more eyebrow raising points at https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-11-20 The Biden Harris Administration's CHNV Parole Program Two Years Later - A Fraud-Ridden%2C Unmitigated Disaster.pdf
my thoughts are: this was a poorly designed and poorly executed fiasco from the start. blaming trump for ending the abuses listed above (and in the linked articles) isn't where the blame should fall - it instead should fall on those who took advantage of the program to ruin it for those with a valid case.