Homeland Security offers $1,000 flight home for self-abolition
President Trump has proposed his support for a homeland security proposal to pay those who choose to self-abolize $1,000 and pave the way for legal re-entering.
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s administration’s request to allow the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans living in the United States to be revoked.
The Boston-based First Circuit Court of Appeals declined to hold off a judge’s order to halt the Department of Homeland Security’s move to shorten the two-year “parole” given to immigrants under Trump’s Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden.
The administration’s actions have encouraged the Republican president’s increased crackdown on hardline immigration and strengthened deportation, including non-citizens who previously had been recognized as legal rights to live and work in the United States.
The administration argued that Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem had the discretion to end the status of immigration and that, at the judge’s order, forced the US government to “keep hundreds of thousands of foreigners against its will.”
However, the Democratic presidential appointee, the 3 judge committee, said Noem “is not a “strong suggestion” that at this point, the termination of her category of plaintiff’s parole would likely be maintained on appeal.”
Karen Tamlin, the attorney who pursued the case by the Center for Judicial Action, Immigration Rights Group, welcomed the court’s decision. She called the administration’s actions “reckless and illegal.”
The administration can now call on the US Supreme Court for intervention. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment.
The lawsuit by immigration rights advocates challenged the agency’s decision to suspend various Biden-era programs that allowed immigration in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
While the incident is pending, the Homeland Security Agency announced on March 25 that it had decided to end its two-year parole granted to approximately 400,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelan immigrants.
On April 25th, US District Judge Indira Talwani, appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, stopped the agency’s actions.
She said the sole basis for refusing to allow immigrants’ parole status to expire naturally is based on legal errors.
