A federal court in Boston has ruled the Trump administration must restore legal status for thousands of immigrants who came to the US on a Biden-era border program.
The Biden-era CBP One program allowed asylum seekers to apply for a fixed number of appointments with immigration officers at a handful of border ports of entry — including the Nogales crossing. Dora Rodriguez, founder of the immigrant aid group Salvavision, says those cleared to come to the U.S. went through a six hour interview at the border to get here.
“To check their background, to check who they were, if they were not criminals, and the ones who had the clear by the Department of Homeland Security, these people were able to continue their case in this country,” Rodriguez said.
Trump ended the program on the first day of his second term, blocking any new applicants from entering the U.S. — including those with appointments that day. Then, last April, the Department of Homeland Security revoked legal status from people already in the U.S. under the program and sent out letters telling them to leave the country.
Rodriguez says people lost their work permits as a result.
“It created a lot, a lot of fatigue, it created a lot of desperation in our families to the point that people started deporting themselves,” she said.
In her ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs said the Trump administration acted illegally by terminating the program without observing its own policy or federal statute.
She says the new ruling is a glimmer of hope for the CBP One families still in Tucson who her group is helping.
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Protesters have been camped out in a plot of private ranch land in Lochiel for over two months now, trying to block wall construction as it neared a towering cottonwood tree that was the last of a grove slated for destruction to make way for two, parallel steel bollard walls. -
Ahmed Soliman has no ties to Equatorial Guinea. The 30-year-old man was born in Egypt and brought to the United States. when he was just 4 years old. He grew up in Phoenix. Now he’s believed to be in a hospital in the African nation. -
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.
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The relationship between Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller and the Board of Supervisors has been rocky since a legal fight started over Miller unilaterally signing up to work with ICE. -
The National Park Service has denied an activist group’s request to place water stations along the Arizona-Mexico border — marking the first time their permit has been denied in more than two decades.
