The only good thing about this stuff is that it will force the Supreme Court to finally step in and stop it

the pen giveth, and the pen taketh away — although not according to grandstanding federal judges

Judge blocks Trump from revoking legal status for 530,000+ migrants who flew into US via Biden program

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from revoking the legal status and work permits of the more than 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who flew into the United States during former President Joe Biden’s time in office. 

The migrants came to the US under Biden’s controversial controversial CHNV mass humanitarian parole program.

In her order, Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, wrote that each migrant needs to have an individualized, case-by-case review.

“The Termination of Parole Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, 90 Fed. Reg. 13611 (Mar. 25, 2025), is hereby STAYED pending further court order insofar as it revokes, without case-by-case review, the previously granted parole and work authorization issued to noncitizens paroled into the United States pursuant to parole programs for noncitizens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (the ‘CHNV parole programs’) prior to the noncitizen’s originally stated parole end date,” she wrote. 

Biden created the CHNV program in 2023 via his executive parole authority. The program was launched in 2022 and initially first applied to Venezuelans before it was expanded to additional countries.

The Biden administration argued that CHNV would help reduce illegal crossings at the southern border and allow better vetting of people entering the country amid an influx of migrants. 

The program was temporarily paused after widespread fraud was found. Several recipients were also arrested for high-profile crimes, including multiple child rapes. 

CHNV allowed the migrants and their immediate family members to fly into the US if they had American sponsors. They could remain in the country for two years under a temporary immigration status known as parole.

Officials with the Department of Homeland Security and the Trump administration said Talwani essentially ruled that Trump can’t use his own executive authority, the same authority Biden used, to revoke the parole that Biden granted. 

“It is pure lawless tyranny,” a Trump administration official told Fox News. 

During his first administration, Trump signed an executive order authorizing the Keystone Pipeline to be built; on his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order reversing Trump’s and permanently halting construction, thereby throwing thousands of workers off their jobs and devastating the small businesses in small S. Dakota towns that were dependent on those workers, and causing millions of dollars of materials and equipment to be wasted. No federal judge intervened.