redstate.com By Joe Cunningham
A federal district court in Massachusetts issued a major blow this week to the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, halting the government’s effort to mass-revoke legal immigration status for thousands of migrants paroled into the U.S. under the Biden-era CHNV program. The ruling doesn’t use the term “nationwide injunction”—but make no mistake, that’s exactly what it is.
The CHNV programs, launched in 2022 and 2023, allowed allegedly vetted individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the United States temporarily under humanitarian parole. After finding “significant” fraud in the program, the Biden administration paused it at the beginning of August 2024 before restarting it at the end of that month.
There were some moves made immediately after Donald Trump was sworn in on January 20, then on March 25, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a notice terminating those programs and revoking active parole grants—without individualized review and without giving current recipients a way to contest their removal.
The court ruled that DHS overstepped, violating federal law by treating tens of thousands of valid parolees as if their status could be erased overnight.
What the Court Actually Did
The judge, in an emergency ruling issued April 14, ruled that DHS “likely” acted unlawfully by issuing blanket revocations of lawful parole, rather than reviewing cases individually—as required by statute. DHS had argued it needed to terminate the parole in bulk to facilitate faster removals, but the court rejected that reasoning, saying nothing in the immigration statute permits cutting off parole early without case-by-case review…
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