Washington — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied the government’s request to stay, or pause, the district court’s order to protect those paroled into the United States from a form of fast tracked deportation known as expedited removal. This ruling leaves in place the district court’s order, issued on August 1, which found that the government’s practice of targeting people who entered via humanitarian parole for expedited removal was unlawful. The government’s appeal of the order will continue to move forward at the Court of Appeals. Below is a statement from the legal team in CHIRLA v. Noem:
“An estimated two million people who did everything the government asked of them to come to the U.S. through parole can breathe a sigh of relief today,” said Hillary Li, counsel for Justice Action Center. “The district court issued its ruling after reviewing hundreds of pages of legal filings and overseeing hours of oral argument, and that order is as carefully reasoned as it is accurate. The district court recognized the importance of the declarations from direct service providers detailing the horror and harm of courthouse arrests on people all across the country and the urgency of this case. While we are grateful for this outcome, we will remain vigilant to continue to defend the district court’s win and ensure the government’s compliance.”
“We welcome the court’s decision signaling to the Trump administration that it cannot abduct paroled community members and separate them from their families, violating clear, established due process under the guise of expedited removal,” said Ama Frimpong, CASA’s legal director. “We will continue to fight against the administration’s cruel enforcement tactics to ensure that our entire community is protected from its overreach and abuse of power.”
“We will remain vigilant to ensure that our members and others on whose behalf we sued are not being subjected to expedited removal,” said Carl Bergquist, general counsel for CHIRLA. “This administration has tried to use these policies to cruelly and illegally shuttle people out of the country, and we will fight for people who lawfully entered under parole to be treated in the way that the statute demands.”
To read more about CHIRLA v. Noem, please visit: justiceactioncenter.org/case/chirla-v-noem-expedited-removal
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