Judge denies Trump admin. the power to end amnesty program Biden admin. started

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 April 16, 2025

The double standard is in full force as U.S. courts exert their supposed power over the Trump administration's agenda to benefit Democrats and the illegal immigrants they hope will vote for their party someday.

Boston-area U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, appointed in 2014 by then-President Barack Obama, has become the latest judge to try to stop President Donald Trump's agenda, ruling on Monday that the administration cannot deport Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who are part of a parole program created by former President Joe Biden.

Half a million migrants were allowed into the country for two years if sponsored by a legal U.S. citizen under a parole program created wholly by the Biden administration to slow down illegal immigration at the border.

The Trump administraion moved to end the program on April 24 and encouraged migrants to "self-deport" by that date to avoid being arrested and deported.

Authority "limited"

“While [Trump administration officials] are correct that the Secretary’s discretion in this area is broad, their conclusion that the Secretary’s actions are wholly shielded from judicial review is incorrect,” Talwani wrote in her opinion.

While acknowledging that her authority is "limited" in the case, she claimed that she had the right to stop the Trump administration's plan because “it revokes, without case-by-case review, previously granted parole and work authorizations for individuals currently in the United States.”

In other words, Biden had the authority to create the parole program from nothing, but Trump does not have the authority to end it. How is that consistent?

“Biden admin created the program out of thin air using his executive parole authority, and it was temporarily halted due to fraud in the program, and this judge is now blocking Trump from using his own authority to cancel the humanitarian parole grants,” Fox News's Bill Melugin said on X.

"Dangers"

Many of the migrants who entered under the program are living and working in South Florida, according to the Miami Herald.

“If [they] leave the country on their own, they will face dangers in their native countries,” Talwani wrote.

She also certified the group as a "class," which means that any migrant who is part of the program can join in to sue the administration.

Talwani did say that Trump has the right to revoke the program, but ruled that the administration had to review and individually evaluate each of the migrants who entered under the program, something that no administration has the resources to do.

“We know this win is the beginning of a very long fight,” Esther Sung, legal director for Justice Action Center, told reporters on a Zoom call on Tuesday.

The migrants still face a two-year deadline, which for some of them could be only a few months away.

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