The Trump administration was blocked late Saturday from revoking the legal status of thousands of migrants, thanks to a ruling from a federal judge who has frequently thwarted the administration’s immigration policies.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, ruled late Saturday that the Trump administration could not revoke a Biden-era family reunification parole program, which affects more than 8,400 Cubans, Colombians, Ecuadorians, Guatemalans, Haitians, Hondurans, and Salvadorans in the country. In her ruling, Talwani said the decision to end the program was not well reasoned to consider concerns of the people affected.
“The Secretary could not provide a reasoned explanation of the agency’s change in policy without acknowledging these interests,” Talwani said in her ruling. “Accordingly, failure to do so
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