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The decision is another legal setback for President Donald
Trump’s plans for mass deportation, but it may prove temporary
and its immediate impact was unclear.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston sided with people
who were already admitted to the United States but were unable
to renew their short-term permits. They cover parole policies
that benefited Afghans, Ukrainians, Cubans, Haitians,
Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and children from Central American
countries trying to join their parents in the U.S., among
others.
Talwani, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, said two
orders by Department of Homeland Security officials to suspend
renewals pending further review were unlikely to survive a legal
challenge. One of the orders “gives no reasoned explanation” for
the actions, she wrote.
“The ‘pause’ has now been in place for three months; the pause
is, in effect, an indefinite suspension,” she wrote.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond
to a request for comment.
A group of American citizens and immigrants earlier this year
sued the Trump administration for ending the long-standing legal
tool presidents have used to allow people from countries where
there’s war or political instability to enter and temporarily
live in the U.S. The humanitarian parole programs allowed in
875,000 migrants who have legal U.S. residents as sponsors.
Trump has been ending legal pathways for immigrants to come to
the U.S. and implementing campaign promises to deport millions
of people who are in the U.S. illegally.
The plaintiffs include eight immigrants who entered the U.S.
legally before the Trump administration ended what it called the
“broad abuse” of humanitarian parole. They can legally stay in
the U.S. until their parole expires, but the administration
stopped processing their applications for asylum, visas and
other requests that might allow them to remain longer.
None are identified by their real names because they fear
deportation. Among them are Maksym and Maria Doe, a Ukrainian
couple; Alejandro Doe, who fled Nicaragua following the
abduction and torture of his father; and Omar Doe, who worked
for more than 18 years with the U.S. military in his home
country of Afghanistan.
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