On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a stay preventing the Trump Administration from ending the parole program that allowed hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians to temporarily live in the United States. During a hearing in the case, Talwani repeatedly questioned the government’s assertion that it could end humanitarian parole for the four nationalities and argues that immigrants in the program who are here legally now face an option of “fleeing the country” or staying and “risk losing everything.” Talwani added that the government’s explanation for ending the program was “based on an incorrect reading of the law.”
