A federal judge has put on hold a Trump administration move to revoke legal status for thousands of immigrants here temporarily.
President Donald Trump moved to cancel a host of Biden-era programs that gave some immigrants temporary permission to stay and work in the U.S. under what’s called humanitarian parole.
Hillary Li is an attorney with the Justice Action Center, one of the groups filing suit against the move.
“The humanitarian parole authority has been used for more than 70 years to provide safe, legal pathways to the U.S. for people often escaping war, political strife or natural disasters in their countries of origin,” she said during a press call about the suit.
“The bottom line here is that people who obtained the government’s permission to be here, to reunite with family members, contribute to the economy, work to support themselves, are now being told they will lose status in just a few weeks.”
Last month, the administration stripped status for more than 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans here on one humanitarian parole program and gave them 30 days to leave.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani cast doubt on the legality of that plan and ruled to pause that deadline.
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