the humanitarian parole program implemented by the Biden administration will remain fully operational until at least April 25thif a Texas federal court dismisses the arguments of a Lawsuits filed against him by 20 red states.
According to an order issued Wednesday by the Southern District Court of Texas, the Prosecutor’s complaint A preliminary hearing will be held before the federal judge on April 25 at 2 p.m. on the suspension of the humanitarian probation initiative Drew B. Tipton.
Barring an urgent request from plaintiffs to reconsider the hearing date, there is every indication that the processing of the program’s requests will remain unchanged until then.
Tipton, a Conservative judge appointed by the President Donald Trump in February 2020, in the April presidency, she must decide whether to temporarily halt the program pending a final decision on the lawsuit.
For now just him alone Federal lawsuit announcement unleashed this Tuesday afternoon a Avalanche of concerns from applicants and program beneficiaries from Cubaand potential economic sponsors in the United States.
The news even mobilized dozens of people to bring forward their flight dates from Cuba and Many landed at Miami International Airport this late Wednesday.
Persons eligible for parole have 90 days to travel to the United States by air.
However, any decision by the Texas court — interim or final — should not nullify the cases that have been approved or are in progress to receive parole, but would close applications from the date of the court ruling.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Humanitarian Probation Program, officially open since Jan. 6, aims to stem the disproportionate flow of immigrants across the southern border and promote orderly and safe entry for up to 30,000 people from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti. Beneficiaries are granted probation for two years of legal residency in the country and a work permit on condition that they can be confirmed by a economic promoter.
The implementation of the initiative also included a Strengthening of border controls warning that anyone attempting to enter the United States will be immediately deported, with a five-year ban on returning to the country and no right to seek the benefits of the parole program.
In the lawsuit, attorneys general argue that their states face “substantial and irreparable harm” from DHS abuses that allow hundreds of thousands of foreigners into each of their territories, already overwhelmed by waves of immigrants in recent years.
This Wednesday, the DHS disputed the arguments in the lawsuit To offer figures on the arrival of immigrants across the border since the start of the humanitarian probation program.
The federal agency announced that the arrests of Undocumented Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans attempting to cross the border illegally decreased by 97% compared to December when there was a historic record of 251,487 irregular arrivals from Mexico.
The number of immigrants from these four nationalities fell from a weekly average of 3,367 daily on December 11 to an average of just 115 on January 24, according to a statement.
“These enhanced border control measures are working,” said the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkaswho tops the list of officials sued by Red States.
Mayorkas considered it an incomprehensible fact that “some states that could benefit from the application of highly effective measures are trying to block them and cause more irregular migration on our southern border”.