The Biden administration opened up humanitarian parole to Venezuelans in 2022 and for Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in January 2023.
At the time, several red states sued the Biden administration looking to block the parole program, though the courts upheld its legality.
President Trump ordered an end to the humanitarian parole programs on his first day in office, leading migrants to challenge Trump’s directive in court. Attorneys for the migrants argued that the end of the humanitarian and other immigration parole programs was “contrary to law, arbitrary and capricious.”
The lawsuits resulted in a temporary pause of the Trump administration’s order in March, after a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Nome lacked the authority to revoke the parole for more than 500,000 people without providing case-by-case reviews.