Hehumanitarian parole program implemented by theBiden administration It will remain fully operational until at least April 25, when a federal court in Texas discusses the arguments of alawsuit filed against him by 20 Republican states.
According to an order from the Southern District Court of Texas issued this Wednesday, thestate prosecutors demand to suspend the humanitarian parole initiative will have an initial hearing on April 25, at 2 p.m., before the federal judgeDrew B. Tipton.
Absent an emergency motion by the plaintiffs to reconsider the hearing date, all indications are that processing of program applications will remain unchanged until then.
Tipton, a conservative judge who was appointed by thePresident Donald Trump in February 2020, it must determine in the April preliminary session whether to temporarily stop the program until a final decision on the lawsuit is made.
For now, he alone federal lawsuit announcement This Tuesday afternoon unleashed aavalanche of concerns from applicants and beneficiaries of the program from Cuba, and potential financial sponsors in the United States.
The news even mobilized dozens of people to advance their flight dates from Cuba andmany disembarked this Wednesday at the last minute at the Miami International Airport.
People with parole authorization have 90 days to travel by air to the United States.
However, any decision by the Texas court - temporary or final - should not annul the cases that have been approved or are in the process of receiving parole, but would close the applications from the moment of the court ruling.
Officially open since last January 6, the humanitarian parole program launched by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeks to stop the disproportionate flow of immigrants across the southern border, and promote an orderly and safe entry for up to 30 thousand people from Cuba. , Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti. The beneficiaries receive a parole to remain legally for two years in the country and a work permit under the condition that they can be endorsed by afinancial sponsor.
The launch of the initiative also involved astrengthening border controls with the warning that people who try to enter the United States territory will be expelled expeditiously, with a penalty of five years of prohibition to return to the country and without the right to request the benefits of the parole program.
In the lawsuit, the attorneys general argue that their states face "substantial and irreparable harm" from DHS abuses, allowing hundreds of thousands of aliens into each of their territories, already overwhelmed by waves of immigrants in years recent.
This Wednesday, theDHS responded to the lawsuit's argumentsoffering figures on the arrival of immigrants across the border since the launch of the humanitarian parole program.
The federal agency revealed that the arrests ofUndocumented Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who attempted to illegally cross the border decreased by 97% compared to December, when there was a historical record of 251,487 irregular entries from Mexico.
According to astatement, the arrivals of immigrants of those four nationalities fell from a weekly average of 3,367 per day, on December 11, to an average of only 115, on January 24.
"These expanded border control measures are working," declared the Secretary of Homeland Security,Alexander Mayorkas, who heads the list of officials sued by Republican states.
Mayorkas considered it an incomprehensible fact that "some states that can benefit from the application of highly effective measures are trying to block them and cause more irregular migration on our southern border."
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