Judge orders Trump administration to restore legal status of migrants allowed into U.S. through Biden-era phone app
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Key Points:
- A federal judge in Boston ordered the Trump administration to restore the legal status of migrants admitted under the Biden-era CBP One program, ruling that ending their parole status violated U.S. legal procedures.
- The CBP One program allowed over 900,000 migrants to enter the U.S. legally via a phone app at southern border ports of entry, but was later repurposed by the Trump administration for self-deportations under the name CBP Home.
- The Justice Department is expected to appeal the ruling, while the Department of Homeland Security criticized the decision as judicial overreach and defended its authority to revoke parole status.
- Supporters of the migrants, including Democracy Forward, hailed the ruling as a rejection of efforts to unlawfully strip legal status from hundreds of thousands who complied with the program’s requirements.
