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By Nate Raymond<\/p>\n
BOSTON, April 24 (Reuters) – The Trump administration again plans to terminate the legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants, after a judge \u200cblocked its initial effort to revoke permissions to live in the United States \u200cgranted under Democratic President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
The administration detailed its intention in filings in federal court in Boston, where \u200ba judge had ruled in March that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully when it ended the legal status of more than 900,000 people who were allowed to live in the country after using the Biden-era app CBP One.<\/p>\n
That judge, Allison Burroughs, on Friday scheduled \u200ca May 6 hearing to \u2060consider barring DHS from following through on its plans.<\/p>\n
DHS did not respond immediately to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Under Biden, immigrants had been generally granted \u2060two-year terms of humanitarian parole after using CBP One, an app that allowed them to schedule an appointment with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n
After Republican President Donald \u200bTrump returned \u200bto the White House, many non-citizens who received parole \u200bthrough the CBP One process received \u200can email in April 2025 from DHS saying it was terminating their parole and it was “time for you to leave the United States.”<\/p>\n
Burroughs, who was appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama, last month concluded DHS needed to undo the parole terminations, saying DHS failed to provide a necessary record showing an official determined the purposes of parole had been \u200cserved.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Department of Justice this week told Burroughs \u200bthat while the administration was complying with her order, \u200bit was also issuing new parole \u200btermination notices to those migrants pursuant to a Tuesday memo from \u200cCBP’s head, Rodney Scott.<\/p>\n
The memo is not \u200bpublic, but according to \u200bthe Justice Department, Scott provided an explanation for why, in his opinion, “parole is no longer appropriate for those aliens.”<\/p>\n
Lawyers at the groups Democracy Forward and Massachusetts Law \u200bReform Institute, representing migrants challenging \u200cDHS’ actions, in a Thursday filing urged Burroughs to intervene and prevent what \u200bthey called a “deliberate attempt to evade compliance with the court\u2019s order.”<\/p>\n
(Reporting by \u200bNate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Nia Williams)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n