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Axios
29-05-2025
- Politics
- Axios
Federal judge blocks Trump admin from pulling Biden-era migrant protections
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Wednesday from revoking Biden -era temporary migrant protections and ordered officials to resume applications. Why it matters: The ruling that comes as the Trump administration is moving to escalate its hardline immigration crackdown affects thousands of people who came to the country legally via temporary programs from Afghanistan, Latin America and Ukraine. Driving the news: A lawsuit is challenging the suspension of processing applications for people from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. State of play: President Trump in January ordered the Homeland Security Department to terminate Biden-era "parole" programs that allowed people from certain countries to temporarily live and work in the U.S. due to humanitarian or public interest grounds. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani in her order accepted that the Trump administration has broad discretion on immigration policy, but said it was not wholly shielded from judicial review. The judge in Boston, Massachusetts, made a similar order in April regarding people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela given temporary legal status under the CHNV Program, which the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to overrule. "This court emphasizes, as it did in its prior order, that it is not in the public interest to manufacture a circumstance in which hundreds of thousands of individuals will, over the course of several months, become unlawfully present in the country, such that these individuals cannot legally work in their communities or provide for themselves and their families," Talwani said Wednesday. What they're saying: "This ruling reaffirms what we have always known to be true: our government has a legal obligation to respect the rights of all humanitarian parole beneficiaries and the Americans who have welcomed them into their communities," said Anwen Hughes, a lawyer for Human Rights First, which is representing plaintiffs in the case, in a statement Wednesday. The other side: Attorneys for the Justice Department in its appeal to the Supreme Court on Talwani's April ruling said that order "blocks the Executive Branch from exercising its discretionary authority over a key aspect of the Nation's immigration and foreign policy and thwarts Congress's express vesting of that decision in the Secretary, not courts."
Axios
15-04-2025
- Politics
- Axios
Judge temporarily halts Trump admin move to end Biden-era migration program
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from revoking a Biden -era migration program for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Why it matters: It's a blow for President Trump's hardline immigration crackdown and a win for half a million people in the U.S. given temporary legal status under the CHNV Program, who were facing possible deportation after its scheduled end on April 24. Driving the news: U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston, Massachusetts, issued a stay in the order, saying "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." If the parole status of those on the program were allowed to lapse, they'd face "two unfavorable options: continue following the law and leave the country on their own, or await removal proceedings," Talwani wrote. "If Plaintiffs leave the country on their own, they will face dangers in their native countries, as set forth in their affidavits," she added. "For some Plaintiffs, leaving will also cause family separation. Leaving may also mean Plaintiffs will have forfeited any opportunity to obtain a remedy based on their APA [Administrative Procedure Act] claims, as leaving may moot those claims." Zoom in: People on the program are allowed to enter the U.S. by plane after being vetted. They must also have sponsors in the U.S. before being provided protection from deportation and issued with work permits for two years. What they're saying: "This ruling is a significant step toward justice for not only the hundreds of thousands of people who entered the U.S. through this important process, but for the American sponsors who welcomed them to their homes and communities," said Karen Tumlin, founder and director of Justice Action Center, an immigrant advocacy group in a statement. The other side: Trump administration officials said the judge "essentially ruled" that the president "can't use his own executive authority, the same authority Biden used, to revoke the parole that Biden granted," per Fox News.
