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An Obama-appointed judge has blocked the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants with temporary protected status (TPS) after it was removed by the Trump administration earlier this year.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of the District of Massachusetts said that she would issue a stay on the order, which would've canceled the TPS for approximately 532,000 migrants on April 24. Those migrants had entered the U.S. through a Biden administration parole program.
“The nub of the problem here is that the secretary, in cutting short the parole period afforded to these individuals, has to have a reasoned decision,” said Talwani.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned impacted migrants that they will have 30 days to self-deport before authorities start looking for them.
“DHS has determined that a 30-day wind-down period provides affected parties sufficient notice while also preserving DHS’s ability to enforce the law promptly against those CHNV parolees lacking a lawful basis to remain in the United States,” the notice reads.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Adviser Stephen Miller said the judge’s decision is another example of the political lawfare against the Trump administration.
“These are the illegals that Biden flew by airplane en masse into the United States, including the Haitian migrants now occupying Springfield,” Miller wrote. “Biden gave these illegals free housing, healthcare and welfare. Now a local judge says they have to stay here for forever.”