A federal judge from the United States decided on Monday (14) that the Trump government could not end existing deportation protections for Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitians and Nicaraguns immigrants under a humanitarian aid program by the end of this month.
This is the latest legal setback in US President Donald Trump’s efforts to implement comprehensive changes in the immigration system.
District Judge Indira Talwani decided that the government did not act within the regulatory limits established in the Administrative Procedure Law by trying to shorten the two -year period for the completion of the program.
“The defendants did not have any substantial reason or public interest to justify the requirement that individuals who were placed on parole in the United States for a specific period leave (or obtain status of indocmented) before the original expiration date of parole,” Talwani wrote, an Obama nominee.
“It is also no public interest to declare summarily that hundreds of thousands of people are no longer considered legally present in the country, so they can no longer work legally in their communities or support themselves and their families,” she added.
Talwani annulled Trump’s decision to cancel the humanitarian benefits of immigration to these immigrants by the Biden Government program known as the Permanent Residence Program (PRFP), or CHNV, which would take effect on April 24.
Such protections should usually be kept until their natural expiration, said Talwani. The judge specified that its order applies to any attempt to end protections in advance and mass and without a case by case.
The lawsuit was filed by parking immigrants and their sponsors in the United States, who argued that the abrupt suspension of the program would cause serious damage to thousands of people on parole.
The government defended the pause as a temporary and legal use of the executive authority to increase security and insisted that humanitarian parole is a discretionary measure.
Department of Justice spokesmen did not immediately respond to requests for comments on the decision.
“On behalf of all those who came to the United States through the CHNV program, they did everything the government has asked and lived for fear that their legal status and work authorizations were revoked on April 24, we are relieved by the court decision, which are based on the damage that these individuals would suffer as a probability of winning this case,” said Anwen Hughes, senior director of legal strategy Human Rights First refugees.
This content was originally published in Judge prevents government Trump from revoking legal status of thousands of migrants on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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