NEWS ALERT: Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking immigration parole

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From Politico: A federal judge has frozen a Trump administration plan to strip more than 10,000 immigrants of their legal status next week.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a temporary restraining order Saturday that extends the “family reunification parole” status of immigrants who were set to see it expire on Wednesday as part of the administration’s broad crackdown on immigration.

Talwani, an Obama appointee based in Boston, said immigration officials failed to properly notify those who might lose their legal authorization to remain in the United States, despite a requirement that they receive direct notification. Publishing the decision on Dec. 15 in the Federal Register — a government database — did not satisfy the requirement, Talwani ruled.

The Trump administration said it planned to provide the required “written notice” to affected immigrants through online accounts, but the judge said some immigrants with “parole” status got electronic notice weeks after the announcement last month, while others claim to have never been notified.

Immigrant rights activists had complained that about 10,000 to 12,000 immigrants, with over 25% of them being children, would lose their legal status this week unless the judge took action.

Now, Judge Indira Talwani has granted a 14-day stay of the Trump administration’s order to cancel the “Family Reunification Parole Program,” while legal challenges continue.

The Trump administration was trying to halt a program that allowed migrants from some Central and South American countries to come to the United States to “reunite with their family members” who were already in the US while waiting for visas.

DHS had announced on December 12:

The Department of Homeland Security is terminating all categorical family reunification parole (FRP) programs for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras, and their immediate family members.

This administration is ending the abuse of humanitarian parole which allowed poorly vetted aliens to circumvent the traditional parole process. Parole was never intended to be used in this way, and DHS is returning parole to a case-by-case basis as intended by Congress. Ending the FRP programs is a necessary return to common-sense policies and a return to America First.

The desire to reunite families does not overcome the government’s responsibility to prevent fraud and abuse and to uphold national security and public safety. The FRP programs had security gaps caused by insufficient vetting that malicious and fraudulent actors could exploit to enter the United States, which posed an unacceptable level of risk to the United States. DHS is prioritizing the safety, security, and financial and economic well-being of Americans.

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