A federal appeals court on Sept. 12 cleared the Trump administration to move forward with terminating the temporary legal status for more than 400,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
The ruling by a three-judge panel of the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston vacated a district-court order that had kept the Biden-era humanitarian parole for those groups in place. The judges acknowledged the hardships parolees face once they lose the status, but concluded they were unlikely to succeed in their claims.
“We recognize the risks of irreparable harm persuasively laid out in the district court’s order: that parolees who lawfully arrived in this country were suddenly forced to choose between leaving in less than a month—a choice that potentially includes being separated from their families, communities, and lawful employment and returning to dangers in their home countries,” the judges wrote….