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The Trump administration is ending the family-reunification parole programs for Cuba, Haiti and six other Latin American countries in another blow to legal migration from the region.

The Department of Homeland Security “is terminating all categorical family reunification parole programs for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti and Honduras, and their immediate family members,” the agency said Friday.

Migrants who benefited from the program and are already in the United States will lose their legal status on Jan. 14 unless they have applied for permanent residence or to adjust their status by Monday, Dec. 15, DHS said. The agency will also revoke employment authorizations for migrants who lose their status.

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