Migrants detained at US Customs and Border Protection facilities in Mission, Texas. Photo: Julio Cortez/AP.
The trial of the humanitarian parole lawsuit for Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans and Haitians has been postponed to Aug. 24 after Texas federal judge Drew B. Tipton upheld it in an opinion this Monday.
Tipton has signed that the request to freeze the implementation of the program will be analyzed as part of the process and that the parties are to submit their proposals and conclusions regarding the disagreements by September 29.
As a Univisión report confirms, there will be no decision on the immigration program at least until the end of this year. The decision is made at the request of the parties to the dispute, taking into account the amount of evidence and witnesses involved in the preparation of the case.
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The plaintiffs in this case are represented by the 21 attorneys general of the Republican Party-ruled states, while the defendant is represented by the Department of Homeland Security.
The originally planned date was June 13, so delaying until August would give more families a chance to submit their applications and be considered for this immigration benefit.
Meanwhile, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) continues to process probation cases in its offices as usual.
USCIS has the capacity to resolve 1,000 cases per day, processing 500 at random and the remainder in chronological order. With the trial being pushed back until August, there’s a chance another 72,000 people could be eligible for parole during that period, the TV network notes.
The Humanitarian Probation Program allows for 30,000 visas per month for citizens of the above countries, but the US Citizenship and Immigration Services has already received more than 1.5 million applications, resulting in long waits and a file backlog. Attention, it says here source.