Federal Judge Blocks Trump From Deporting Migrants

A federal judge ruled on Monday that United States President Donald Trump is not allowed to revoke the migrant status of over half a million foreigners allowed into the U.S. under Joe Biden’s administration.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a Barack Obama appointee, issued an emergency ruling blocking President Trump from deporting over 530,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants given working permits under Biden’s chnv Parole program.

Her order demands that each deportation must have an individual case-by-case review.

Paroles: Biden’s chnv program launched in 2022 for Venezuelans and expanded to the other countries in 2023. It gave migrants a two-year “parole” status and work authorization if they received U.S. sponsorship.

In August 2024, the program was suspended for a month because of fraud. Among the issues were:

• Fake phone numbers and Social Security Numbers of sponsors
• One sponsor’s phone number was submitted on over 2,000 forms.
• 2,839 forms had fake zip codes for sponsors.
• 100 addresses were used between 124 to 739 times on over 19,000 forms.
• Multiple applications were submitted from the same IP addresses; one IP address was used 1,328 times.
• Over 10,000 Form I-134A applications had the same exact answers to questions.
• Some phone numbers and Social Security Numbers belonged to dead people.

Notices: On March 25, the Department of Homeland Security issued notices to the parolees stating their statuses would be terminated on April 24, giving them a month to leave the country on their own or face deportation.

District veto: Judge Talwani’s order attempts to block this nationwide, using a class-action injunction.

Biden used his executive powers to create the migration program. Talwani is trying to take away that same executive power from President Trump.

District judges like Talwani are behaving as though they have veto power over the president.

Learn more: Read “A Nation of 700 Presidents.”