The immigration attorney Willy Allen revealed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) mistakenly sent two emails to his personal account revoking his CBP One parole, even though he never had that immigration benefit.
"I have received two emails to my personal account revoking my parole. Incredible," Allen declared during a live broadcast on CiberCuba with journalist Tania Costa, where he described the incident as a demonstration of the "incompetence" of the DHS system.
The two messages arrived with different case numbers addressed to "Wilfredo Allen" as if he were the holder of the parole, when in fact Allen is the attorney representing the clients to whom those emails were supposedly directed. "They are so incompetent at DHS that they revoked my parole which is addressed to me with my name as the person who holds the parole," he noted.
The lawyer explained that the DHS would have sent the notifications to the legal representative's email instead of that of the affected migrant. "I can imagine that I am the lawyer for the person and they didn't realize that instead of sending that to the individual, they were sending it to me. Not as a lawyer, but sending it to me: 'Wilfredo Allen, your parole has been revoked,' " he detailed.
In response to Tania Costa's question about whether he ever had parole, Allen was emphatic: "I never had parole."
Now Allen has to review the document numbers included in the emails to identify the affected client or clients. "Now I have to look for the number that has the document to see to whom it belongs. Just imagine, I have a lot of clients; I need to find out who it is and why it came to me and not to my client," he explained.
The interviewer humorously noted that the client might have "escaped" receiving the notification due to the error, a possibility that Allen did not dismiss.
The case is not isolated. In April 2025, the DHS erroneously sent revocation notifications to U.S. citizens and permanent residents who never had parole, causing massive confusion among the migrant community and their legal representatives.
This chaos occurred within the framework of the Trump administration's campaign to revoke the humanitarian parole of thousands of foreigners from the CHNV program —Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela— which benefited over 530,000 migrants.
However, Allen clarified that a judge has already halted those actions. "The judge said they can't do it. So we will have to fight. It's more battles with this government," he stated.
On April 15, 2025, federal judge Indira Talwani temporarily suspended all revocation notices of parole sent by Uscis, ordering that any cancellation must follow an individualized process according to the law.
The lawyer also expressed concern about the compliance with other court orders. "Once again, they are violating their own laws," he warned, referring to a judge's order in Maryland regarding the opening of the border. "That's why the judge's order to open the border in Maryland worries me. It remains to be seen how they will drag their feet in applying it," he added.
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