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Text: Cuba News 360 Newsroom
Detention centers on the southern border of the United States release Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan and Colombian immigrants on humanitarian grounds and on parole.
A source for the Department of Homeland Security, which is part of the Rio Grande Valley sector in the state of Texas, said the federal government is already releasing migrants from those countries, with the exception of adult Colombians who are traveling alone, according to the Fox News audit report.
President Joe Biden’s administration approved the measure after learning that prisons are overwhelmed with the growing number of immigrants they are taking in.
Federal law stipulates that this type of probationary treatment must be assessed on a case-by-case basis and used for “urgent humanitarian purposes” and “essential public benefits,” according to the US media.
Officials normally only grant parole to a few immigrants, but the Biden administration is making massive use of them to alleviate the situation of overcrowding for undocumented immigrants in southern border detention centers, which are seeing the arrival of over 150,000 migrants a month during the current crisis.
“While some facilities have reached capacity, U.S. Customs and Border Protection continues to process individuals in the Del Rio sector safely, efficiently and effectively,” a federal agency spokesman said.
The official added that migrants pass extensive background checks to stay on top of any type of public safety threat in America.
He clarified that the Biden administration is returning single adults of Colombian citizenship under Title 42, a public health order used by the Donald Trump administration to expel migrants, justified by the COVID-19 pandemic.