Trump can't revoke legal status of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, judge rules

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

April 14, 2025 / 10:13 PM EDT


The Trump administration can't immediately revoke the deportation protections and work permits of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who entered the U.S. legally under a Biden-era program, a federal judge ruled Monday.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with its plan to terminate the legal status of those migrants on April 24. The administration had warned those affected by its announcement that they would need to self deport by that date or face arrest and deportation by federal immigration agents.

But Talwani suspended the deportation warnings the government had sent and prohibited officials from revoking the legal protection, known as immigration parole, that the Biden administration granted to more than half a million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. Talwani said those mass parole terminations could not happen without each case being reviewed.

The "early termination, without any case-by-case justification, of legal status for noncitizens who have complied with DHS programs and entered the country lawfully undermines the rule of law," wrote Talwani, who sits on the federal district court in Boston. Monday's ruling is a significant reprieve for those who arrived under a policy the Biden administration argued promoted legal immigration and dissuaded migrants from crossing the southern border unlawfully.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-cant-revoke-legal-status-of-migrants-from-cuba-haiti-nicaragua-and-venezuela-judge-rules/

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://justiceactioncenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/0097-Order-Granting-Stay-of-CHNV-Revocations.pdf

[Emile]

2. Hello

[Dem2theMax]

3. Appears we missed something good!

[MayReasonRule]

4. This Is Reason's Rule... Here's To The Implementation Of This Reasoned Ruling

I do not know how it will be done.

Time of course will tell.

[Buddyzbuddy]

5. The question isn't whether he can or can't revoke their legal status

by order of the courts or otherwise. The question is what will be done when he does because he most assuredly will. Just like every other law he has broken. He has tested the Judicial system and they've been found to be lacking.

True, they haven't taken every step they can. But everytime the Administration ignores or worse yet, chides the courts they are testing to see how far they can go and what repercussions are to follow.
Nothing, that's the penalty. Nothing but repetition from the courts. All I hear is, "you better stop, or else." Or else what? Nothing, crickets.

The Republican Congress is either too stupid to understand the ultimate end game or they want it to happen. Most of the Democratic Congress, I think is still in shock and quite frankly, powerless.

It's understandable the courts don't want to allow this situation to escalate because then everybody will know, they too have no power to enforce their orders. Their true power came from their voices and decisions backed by law enforcement of the gov't.

Well, this administration has law enforcement, the military, and unlimited resources.
We have the numbers and allies in foreign countries. We need somebody(ies) with a plan because at this point, we can't just wait them out.

I hope to see some type of authority exercised by the courts, but this R. Congress has to go.
His talk of sending American citizens to foreign prisons is another test. A test of acceptability by the American public. By '26 that may not be necessary any longer. Just Decree's, aka executive orders.

First, it was going to be immigrants that committed heinous crimes to be deported and then those that "rioted" and then those that spoke against America and Israel. No trial, no findings, just grabbing people from the streets, their homes, and their work. Who are these f.cking monsters who think they can do this in our name and who are we to allow it.
This regime is only going to get worse, not better.

[Martin Eden]

6. The Felon has no need to change their status

He can simply have them kidnapped and sent to a prison in El Salvador, from which there is no return.

[MichMan]

7. Once the two year deadline is past, can the deportations resume?

I don't believe the court ruling grants them permanent status.

[Jose Garcia]

9. Yep. This is only a temporary reprieve

[Vinca]

8. Judge? What's a judge? Dear Leader doesn't recognize them.

[k_buddy762]

10. He'll do it anyway

just watch. Court orders are meaningless to him.

[riversedge]

13. You are probably right.

[nwduke]

11. So much for the Cubans

That supported Krasnov! What do you think of your vote now!

[twodogsbarking]

12. He will still send masked goons to kidnap them and send them away. None of that was ever legal.

Legalities, meh.

[quakerboy]

14. now enforce it. dare ya

This administration has decided to deport natural born citizens, they are just waiting to see if anyone can actually stop them.

[Magoo48]

15. Judges can rule on shit all day long, each time the rulings go unenforced they become more of an impotent joke.