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U.S. Appeals Court Greenlights Trump’s Mass Revocation of Lawful Status and Work Authorization From Hundreds of Thousands of Parole Beneficiaries

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOSTON — The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Trump administration today in Svitlana Doe v. Noem, ruling that the administration’s termination of humanitarian parole was lawful. This ruling impacts the lawful parole status and work authorization for half a million “CHNV” humanitarian parole recipients from Cuba, Haiti, […]

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Trump Attempt to Fast Track Some Deportations Blocked Again by Court

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

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NEA, AFT, and Members of Impacted Preschool Join Lawsuit to Restore Protections From ICE Enforcement

EUGENE, Ore.—The two largest educators’ unions in the country—the National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT), representing a total of nearly 5 million educators and staff—as well as impacted members of an Oregon preschool community, have joined a federal lawsuit, PCUN v. Noem, seeking to restore protections that had previously barred ICE

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Federal Court Finds Trump Administration’s Use of Expedited Removal for Parolees Contrary to Statute

WASHINGTON – A federal district court today issued an order in CHIRLA v. Noem, a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s use of expedited removal against those who entered the United States with parole. The plaintiffs, membership-based organizations Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), CASA, and the UndocuBlack Network (UBN), argued that the Trump administration was

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Trump Administration Moves to Deport More Than 500,000 Lawful Immigrants After Stripping Them of Their Status

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a notice today to all beneficiaries of the humanitarian parole pathway for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (“CHNV” humanitarian parole) directing them to “self-deport” immediately. This impacts approximately 500,000 people who entered the U.S. lawfully, after their U.S. sponsors’ applications

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Organizations File in Court to Fight Back Against ICE Court-steps Detentions 

WASHINGTON – Immigrants’ rights organizations went back to court last night in CHIRLA v. Noem on behalf of their members to update an earlier complaint filed to stop deportations without due process for those who entered on humanitarian parole. Over the past few weeks, immigrants across the country have had their cases dismissed in immigration

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JAC’s Response to the Los Angeles ICE Raids: “LA Doesn’t Want Any of This”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Karen Tumlin, Founder and Director of Justice Action Center, responds to the Trump administration’s escalation against Los Angeles immigrant communities: “Our hearts break for our immigrant neighbors and their loved ones across the city of Los Angeles who are being unjustly targeted by a presidential administration with a penchant for cruelty. We

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Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Circumvent District Court’s Ruling and Strip Lawful Immigration Status from Nearly 500,000 People

Additional languages: Haga clic aquí para español. Klike la pou Kreyòl. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump Administration’s request to stay a district court order in Svitlana Doe v. Noem, stripping the legal status of an estimated half a million people en masse who came to the U.S. through the

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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Processing of Immigration Benefit Applications for Humanitarian Parole Recipients and Certifies Nationwide Class to Ensure All Impacted Individuals are Protected

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOSTON—A federal judge in Massachusetts issued two rulings in Svitlana Doe v. Noem today, this time ordering the Trump administration to resume processing of applications for more lasting immigration status or benefits (such as work permits) filed by noncitizens who were granted lawful status in this country through categorical humanitarian parole programs.

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