A federal judge in Boston has signaled she is likely to block President Donald Trump's plan to deport thousands of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants granted protected status in the United States, reported the Miami Herald on Thursday.
Per the report, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, stated "that her decision will allow the paroled migrants to stay in the United States as they pursue immigration benefits. In effect, it will prevent the Department of Homeland Security from revoking their parole status as part of an administration plan to end the humanitarian program on April 24."
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Trump's plan to revoke this legal status, first announced last month, would render around 520,000 people who fled hardship and political instability in their home countries vulnerable to deportation.
"Many of them have been living and working with permits in South Florida after being sponsored by relatives to come to the United States to apply for asylum or other protections instead of trying to get in through the U.S.-Mexico border, where a migrant crisis erupted during the Biden administration’s watch," said the report.
Trump has repeatedly and publicly attacked federal judges who issue rulings staying or blocking his executive decisions. After another federal judge blocked his mass deportations of individuals the administration accused with no due process of being violent gang members, he proclaimed, "If it was up to District Judge Boasberg and other Radical Left Judges, nobody would be removed, the President wouldn't be allowed to do his job, and people's lives would be devastated all throughout our Country."
Overall, Trump's record in court on pursuing his deportation policies has been mixed.
The Supreme Court ultimately allowed Trump to move forward with the alleged gang member deportations but fired a warning shot that going forward, he needed to give such people a chance to obtain legal representation and receive due process. The high court also ordered Trump, after briefly pausing a lower court ruling, to ask for the return of a Maryland father mistakenly deported to an infamous Salvadoran megaprison, but first required clarification from the lower court, in a move that left legal experts puzzled.
