Los Angeles, US, (EFE).- Donald Trump’s istration asked the United States Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to revoke the legal status of hundreds of migrants granted by Joe Biden’s former istration.
The document, filed by Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security, asks the courts to halt the order issued by Massachusetts Judge Indira Talwani on Apr. 15.
The order temporarily blocked the Trump istration’s attempt to revoke the legal status and work permits of hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries of a humanitarian program for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
In issuing this order, the District Court has engaged in the very review that Congress prohibited: “it has unnecessarily overturned important migration policies carefully designed to deter illegal entry, intruded on fundamental executive branch prerogatives, and reversed democratically approved policies that played an important role in the November elections,” the brief to the Supreme Court said.
The Supreme Court “should stay the district court’s order. Typically, an alien who arrives in the US and fails to establish issibility is promptly removed or detained pending removal proceedings,” added the 27-page brief signed by Solicitor General John Sauer.
In October 2024, before the presidential elections, the Biden istration announced that it would not renew the so-called “humanitarian parole,” meaning that beneficiaries could not extend their legal status beyond two years initially stipulated.
Trump ordered the cancellation of this migration program, which protects some 530,000 Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians from deportation. It was introduced during the istration of Democrat Joe Biden (2021-2025) to expand legal avenues for migration to the US and reduce irregular border crossings.
However, Judge Talwani, nominated by former President Barack Obama (2009-2017), ruled that the government must respect the cessation date and cannot revoke it early without a case-by-case review.
For over 70 years, Republican and Democratic istrations have used the humanitarian parole process to promote national interests such as family reunification and humanitarian border management.EFE
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