US judge to block Trump from revoking thousands of migrants' legal status

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BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge said she will block President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday from revoking the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's decision to cut short a two-year parole granted to the migrants under Trump's Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, was based on an incorrect reading of the law.

The administration's action, announced in a Federal Register notice published last month, marked an expansion of the Republican president's hardline crackdown on immigration.

The judge, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, said the administration wanted to expose about 450,000 people to expedited deportation effective April 24 based on a wrong interpretation of the statute governing the process.

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She said that law focused on people who illegally crossed the border and providing a means to remove them on an expedited basis, not individuals who were granted permission to enter the United States under a grant of parole.

"What you're prioritizing is not people coming over the border but the people who followed the rules," Talwani said.

But she said she found the administration's rationale for revoking the status of people already in the country lawfully confusing and said she would work to get an order out urgently pausing the Federal Register notice.