The Biden administration is preparing to defend its use of a Cold War-era law to admit thousands of migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, in a case that could restrain the US response to humanitarian crises.
A Texas judge on Thursday scheduled a June trial for the challenge brought by Republican-led states to the use of humanitarian parole, a policy that lets groups or individuals sponsor migrants to live and work in the US for up to two years.
More than 22,500 people from the four countries were admitted to the US in February under the program, according to ...
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