A lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s cancellation of humanitarian parole programs for certain immigrants and refugees is expanding.
Humanitarian parole programs have been used by presidential administrations for decades to streamline temporary U.S. entry for immigrants facing war or other challenges in their home countries.
The Trump administration moved to cancel a host of Biden-era programs for Ukrainians, Afghans, Haitians, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. Last month, rights groups filed a lawsuit on behalf of some of those recipients and their U.S. citizen sponsors.
A new filing this week expands the case to include additional plaintiffs, including Ukrainian nationals living in the U.S., along with active-duty U.S. military personnel and veterans. The case goes to court later this month.
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In July, the Trump administration ended its contract with legal-aid groups part of a Congressionally-funded program for unaccompanied children. -
Activists started occupying the cottonwood tree at the end of July, hoping to save it after the other three were felled. They hoisted a wooden platform high into its branches, and camped on private land right next to it. -
Arizona has for a long time been one of the leading states for refugee resettlement, but now with the numbers cut so low, refugees in our state and the resettlement agencies that are built up to help them adjust are feeling the impact. -
The standoff began Oct. 5, when Border Patrol agents swarmed a protest camp situated in and around a cottonwood tree slated for removal to make way for two steel border walls — the last of a border-hugging grove on the U.S. side that was estimated to be as much as 250 years old. -
His comments come after the Arizona Sheriff’s Association accused his office of refusing requests for assistance from Border Patrol.
