Judge had previously blocked move to end temporary legal status for those who entered US via Biden-era application. Published On 24 Apr 202624 Apr 2026The administration of President Donald Trump plans to again end the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of people who applied for asylum in the United States via the CBP One app.The plan was detailed in a court filing in Boston, Massachusetts, and comes after a judge ruled that Trump’s earlier effort to terminate the legal status of those individuals was unlawful.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listUnder US President Joe Biden, individuals who registered for an appointment with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were preliminarily vetted and granted temporary legal status in the US as their asylum cases were adjudicated.About 900,000 people were granted so-called humanitarian parole under the programme.But in April of last year, just months after Trump took office for a second term, many of those individuals received emails saying their status had been terminated.The message told its recipients it was “time for you to leave the United States”.Federal Judge Allison Burroughs subsequently ruled that the Department of Homeland Security did not follow the proper procedures in terminating the legal status immigration status of CBP One users.The US Department of Justice, in the new filings, told Burroughs that the Trump administration was complying with her order.However, the department said the administration would begin issuing new parole termination notices, pursuant to a Tuesday memo from CBP’s head, Rodney Scott.The memo is not public, but according to the Justice Department, Scott provided an explanation for why, in his opinion, “parole is no longer appropriate for those aliens”. Advertisement Lawyers for Democracy Forward and Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, which represent the individuals whose status faces termination, urged Burroughs in …
