Appeals Court Upholds Trump’s Revocation of Parole Status for More Than 400,000 Immigrants

Judges acknowledged the hardships parolees face once they lose status, but concluded they were unlikely to succeed on their claims.
Appeals Court Upholds Trump’s Revocation of Parole Status for More Than 400,000 Immigrants
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Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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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.