First Circuit Probes Jurisdiction Over Migrant Parole Programs

A federal appellate panel questioned whether it can second guess the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of removal protections for nearly half a million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela admitted under a Biden-era parole process.

The Department of Homeland Security created that pathway for temporary admission to the US based on humanitarian reasons and to reduce migration to the southern border. Judge William Kayatta, an Obama appointee to the First Circuit, asked whether it was necessary for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to address both rationales before ending the protections.

“Once you determine reason A is no longer applicable, why ...