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The increasing loss of life on the world’s most dangerous maritime crossing comes amidst reports of delays in State-led rescue responses and hindrance to the operations of NGO search and rescue (SaR) vessels in the central Mediterranean.

Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans and family members eligible for safe passage into United States for up to two years as parolees if they have a financial supporter. This program is like the Uniting for Ukraine program. Organizations provide the financial support.

We welcome the news that the Biden Administration has decided to provide a new humanitarian parole program for some Venezuelans, similar to the one offered to Ukrainians, as a way to more quickly process vulnerable asylum-seekers. However, it is unacceptable that the U.S. will at the same time expel Venezuelans who do not have a private sponsor, as well as other asylum-seekers fleeing from countries like Haiti and Honduras.

The Biden administration has reached a deal with Mexico to send back some Venezuelan migrants, while expanding opportunities for others to arrive legally.

One woman has made it her mission to help people seek asylum from war-torn Ukraine. In April, immigration lawyer Dana Bucin traveled from her Hartford office to...

We write to you on behalf of the undersigned organizations, legal services providers, resettlement agencies, law firms, and law school clinics, to express our extreme concern regarding the exclusionary approach the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has adopted towards over 30,000 Afghans who have applied for Humanitarian Parole to the United States.