Protestors held up signs in support of immigrants in the New London area during a protest April 9, 2025. PC: Fox 11 Online
NEW LONDON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Protesters outside Tyson Foods in New London voiced concerns Wednesday morning over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
“We are trying to call attention to the termination of the CHNV visa program,” said protestor Emily Tseffos. “There are a lot of folks in the New London area that are here, working, paying taxes, living, raising their families on this program, and they’ve been asked to self deport by April 24.”
On March 25, the Department of Homeland Security announced the Biden-era “Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela Parole Program” would be terminated. The program gives temporary legal status to 530,000 people in the U.S. until 2026.
Tseffos said the soon-to-be shutdown system was effective and increased legal immigration.
“We really just want those legal recourse options to be available to people,” she said. “When you’re just cutting them off, you’re forcing more people to immigrate. It’s going to still happen. It’s going to be illegal now.”
Republican Congressman Tony Wied shared a statement about his thoughts on termination of the program:
The Biden Administration purposely ended President Trump’s effective immigration policies and enacted the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) program in an effort to conceal the severity of their disastrous open border policies by granting temporary amnesty to millions of illegal aliens coming from those countries in droves. The Biden Administration made it known at the time that these were temporary visas and were never meant to be permanent.
Protester Marc Christopher is against the termination of the CHNV visa program. He said if you’re in the U.S., “You’re our neighbor. We don’t ask questions about how you came into the United States. Good people are good people, neighbors are neighbors, children are children, and we support them.”
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