Federal Judge to Block DHS From Revoking 530,000 Immigrants’ Temporary Legal Status

A federal judge on April 10 said she would block the Trump administration from revoking the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Cubans residing in the United States. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston said the Department of Homeland Security’s late March decision to end the Biden-era two-year humanitarian parole program for immigrants from those four countries was based on a misinterpretation of the law. The agency’s notice affected more than 530,000 immigrants who were granted temporary legal status to remain in the United States with sponsors after President Joe Biden launched the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela (CHNV) program in 2022. The immigrants will have their legal status revoked on April 24, or within 30 days of the notice’s publication in the Federal Register, according to the Department of Homeland Security....