Appeals court allows Trump administration to end legal protection for over 400,000 immigrants

Appeals court allows Trump administration to end legal protection for over 400,000 immigrants


A federal appeals court ruled on Friday to allow the Trump administration to go forward with stripping protections away from around 430,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

A stay had been issued by a district court.

“We recognize the risks of irreparable harm persuasively laid out in the district court’s order: that parolees who lawfully arrived in this country were suddenly forced to choose between leaving in less than a month — a choice that potentially includes being separated from their families, communities, and lawful employment and returning to dangers in their home countries,” the judges wrote.

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“But absent a strong showing of likelihood of success on the merits, the risk of such irreparable harms cannot, by itself, support a stay,” they added.

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