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Federal judge blocks Trump admin from pulling Biden-era migrant protections
Source: Axios
10 hours ago
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Wednesday from suspending Biden-era temporary migrant protections and ordered officials to resume applications.
Why it matters: The ruling that comes as the Trump administration is moving to escalate its hardline immigration crackdown affects thousands of people who came to the country legally via temporary programs from Afghanistan, Latin America and Ukraine.
Driving the news: President Trump in January ordered the Homeland Security Department to terminate Biden-era "parole" programs that allowed people from certain countries to temporarily live and work in the U.S. on humanitarian or public interest grounds.
A lawsuit is challenging the suspension of processing applications for people from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
State of play: U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani in her order acknowledged that the Trump administration has broad discretion on immigration policy, but said it was not wholly shielded from judicial review.
The judge in Boston, Massachusetts, made a similar order in April regarding people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela given temporary legal status under the CHNV Program. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene in that case. "This court emphasizes, as it did in its prior order, that it is not in the public interest to manufacture a circumstance in which hundreds of thousands of individuals will, over the course of several months, become unlawfully present in the country," Talwani said Wednesday. "[S]uch that these individuals cannot legally work in their communities or provide for themselves and their families."
Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/29/trump-biden-migrant-programs-judge-block
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.281389/gov.uscourts.mad.281389.107.0.pdf
Buncha rulings and other news happened yesterday that the M$M blocked from publication until today.
