Topic Summary

The Humanitarian Parole program, first implemented in late 2022, gave immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV)who otherwise wouldn’t be allowed entry into the U.S. the opportunity to enter the country based on urgent humanitarian reasons. However, as a result of the May 30, 2025 Supreme Court ruling ending this program, more than half a million individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela now face imminent repatriation. Governments in Havana, Port-au-Prince, Managua, and Caracas each scramble to prepare for the arrival of hundreds of thousands of citizens, many without homes, jobs, or immediate means of survival.

Delegates now face significant humanitarian stakes, volatile political tensions, and an international community turning a blind eye as they seem busy focusing on “bigger” issues. Now, the region of Latin America and the Caribbeanmust answer this issue on its own, without the help of Western Powers.How will these repatriations be carried out? Where will returnees go? Will other nations volunteer to share the burden? And most critically—what will be done to ensure that those sent back are not simply abandoned to worse uncertainty and instability than what originally led them to migrate?