The Biden administration's announcement on Friday that it will end an immigration parole program that gave legal protections to migrants from four countries is expected to affect the lives of many New Yorkers, though exactly how many was unclear.

The lapse of the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan — or CHNV — parole program comes just weeks ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election, in which border security and immigration have featured as central issues. The move is estimated to directly impact some 500,000 people nationwide, but could keep many more families separated.

Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the nonprofit New York Immigration Coalition, said in a statement that ending the program “will put the lives of as many as 530,000 people at risk.”

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WNYC's Michael Hill spoke to Arun Venugopal, senior reporter in the newsroom's Race and Justice Unit, about developments in the story.