Migrants’ temporary legal status remains intact after 1st Circuit denies Trump administration’s stay request

The ABA Journal reports that migrants granted temporary legal status to remain in the United States through a humanitarian parole program created by the Biden administration cannot be removed from the country for now, a federal appeals court decided yesterday.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied the Trump’s administration’s emergency request to allow termination of the program that allowed the migrants to remain in the United States for up to two years.

The May 5 order said that the Department of Homeland Security “has not at this point made a ‘strong showing’ that her categorical termination of plaintiffs’ parole is likely to be sustained on appeal.”

The 1st Circuit’s order affects hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who are living in the United States, Reuters reports.

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