REPORT: US appeals court rules on Trump bid to revoke thousands of migrants’ status welcomed in by Biden

May 6, 2025

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From Reuters: BOSTON, May 5 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court rejected on Monday a request by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to allow it to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans living in the United States.

The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put on hold a judge’s order halting the Department of Homeland Security’s move to cut short a two-year “parole” granted to the migrants under Trump’s Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden.

The administration’s action marked an expansion of the Republican president’s hardline crackdown on immigration and push to ramp up deportations, including of noncitizens previously granted a legal right to live and work in the United States.

The administration argued Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had discretion to categorically end the migrants’ status and that the judge’s order was forcing the U.S. government to “retain hundreds of thousands of aliens in the country against its will.”

The ruling impacts over 400,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelan migrants who the Biden administration had allowed to fly into the U.S. through a “two-year parole” program.

According to the report, the three judges on the appeals court panel who ruled against the Trump administration are all appointees of Democrat presidents. They are:

Judge Gustavo Gelpi, 59, (born in Puerto Rico), appointed by Joe Biden
Judge William J. Kayatta, 71, appointed by Barack Obama
Judge Lara Montecalvo, 51, appointed by Joe Biden

These are the 400,000 illegals Biden criminally flew into the country. https://t.co/XQA1qHlAse

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) May 6, 2025

This comes after U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, ruled last month to block the Trump administration from revoking the parole status of half a million migrants the Biden administration had allowed to fly into the U.S. through the parole program.

An immigrant rights group, Justice Action Center, had filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from canceling the parole status of the migrants. That group is now cheering their victory.

🥳📣Good news: The First Circuit just denied the Trump Admin’s request to pause our win in Svitlana v. Noem that protected legal status + work permits for hundreds of thousands of people who came to the U.S. through CHNV parole. More on this here: https://t.co/eDaObRIgZT

— justiceactionctr.bsky.social (@jactioncenter) May 6, 2025

Importante decisión judicial en EE.UU.:
La Corte de Apelaciones ha rechazado el intento de bloquear el programa de parole humanitario para personas de Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua y Haití.

Este fallo garantiza la protección y permanencia de más de 400.000 beneficiarios en… pic.twitter.com/3xoywdfxJx

— Esteban Oria (@estebanoria) May 6, 2025