A Massachusetts federal judge stopped the Trump administration late Monday from yanking legal status from more than 530,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals who were brought into the US under a controversial Biden administration parole program. Boston US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, ruled that the migrants are entitled to a case-by-case review and declined to put her decision on hold while the Trump administration appeals it.
Biden’s parole program was granted by executive order, so the program can be terminated by executive order. If the Democrats wanted it to be permanent, they needed to go through Congress and get it signed into law.
Furthermore, the Supreme court just ruled that a district judge cannot issue a nationwide injunction.
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Judge stops Trump from yanking legal status for 530K migrants allowed into US under Biden
By Ryan King, NY Post, April 15, 2025:
A Massachusetts federal judge stopped the Trump administration late Monday from yanking legal status from more than 530,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals who were brought into the US under a controversial Biden administration program.
Boston US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, ruled that the migrants are entitled to a case-by-case review and declined to put her decision on hold while the Trump administration appeals it.
“The early termination, without any case-by-case justification, of legal status for noncitizens who have complied with DHS programs and entered the country lawfully undermines the rule of law,” Talwani wrote in a 41-page ruling. “The court finds the balance of equities and public interest weigh in favor of preliminary relief.”
At issue was the Biden administration’s Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) mass humanitarian parole program, which gave nationals from those Latin American countries a path to legal status in the US.
The Department of Homeland Security announced the program in early 2023.
Since then, an estimated 110,240 Cubans, 211,040 Haitians, 93,080 Nicaraguans and 117,320 Venezuelans were granted parole — or temporary permission — to stay in the US under the CHNV program.
The Biden administration had argued the program would reduce the inflow of migrants across the southern border and allow for better vetting.
At one point this past July, the program was paused due to widespread fraud concerns after an internal probe found that more than 100,000 applicants for the program were backed by about 3,200 “serial sponsors.” It was restarted last August.
On his first day back in the White House, President Trump signed two executive orders that were used to target the CHNV program.
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