A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from categorically revoking a status allowing an estimated 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to remain and work in the United States for up to two years under a Biden-era initiative.
Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled Monday that the Trump administration must do a case-by-case review to revoke the status of migrants who entered the country under the terms of the so-called CHNV parole programs.
The Trump administration announced last month that it would terminate those programs and end parole status on April 24 regardless of the originally stated parole end date for migrants, in part because the initiative is inconsistent with foreign policy goals.
