Immigration Law
Migrants’ temporary legal status remains intact after 1st Circuit denies Trump administration’s stay request
Migrants granted temporary legal status to remain in the United States through a humanitarian parole program during the Biden administration can’t be kicked out of the country immediately, a federal appeals court decided Monday. (Photo from Shutterstock)
Migrants granted temporary legal status to remain in the United States through a humanitarian parole program during the Biden administration can’t be kicked out of the country immediately, a federal appeals court decided Monday.
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Boston denied the Trump’s administration’s emergency request to allow termination of the program that allowed the migrants to remain in the United States for up to two years.
The 1st Circuit’s May 5 order said Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, “has not at this point made a ‘strong showing’ that her categorical termination of plaintiffs’ parole is likely to be sustained on appeal.”
The 1st Circuit’s order affects hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who are living in the United States, Reuters reports.
The Trump administration sought emergency relief after U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of the District of Massachusetts temporarily blocked revocation of temporary legal status and work authorization for the migrants in an April 14 decision.
Talwani had concluded that the law on humanitarian parole allowed revocation of temporary legal status on a case-by-case basis but not by an order affecting the entire group.
The Justice Action Center, an immigrant rights group, and Human Rights First, a human rights organization, are representing the migrants in the lawsuit, Svitlana Doe v. Noem, according to a May 5 press release.
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