The Joe Biden administration’s immigration policy, known as PAROLE, which allows a small number of people from four countries to enter the United States each month for humanitarian reasons, is under investigation in Texas. There were updates on this this week.
What happens in that court is of vital importance to the people of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The program is currently facing a lawsuit from Texas and 20 other states that consider it a “backdoor immigration system” that allows nearly all applicants.
At a hearing this weekend, Federal Judge Tipton, who heard the case, He questioned Is poverty a sufficient reason to qualify for the scheme? A lawyer from the Department of Justice and a lawyer from the Justice Action Center both agreed that it is not, and that immigrants are also fleeing situations of “political oppression.”
“They don’t look favorably on allowing immigrants to enter for purely economic reasons,” opined Esther Chung, a lawyer at the Center for Justice Action.
Trial against parole for Cubans
Lawyers for the plaintiff states argued that the program did not evaluate cases individually, but rather granted humanitarian permits en masse and indiscriminately.
Despite questions from both sides of the hearing against humanitarian parole benefiting Cubans, Tipton did not comment on its legality. Final results may take a few months.
However, he promised not to suspend it, a relief to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who are waiting for the support of family members to immigrate to the country from the United States on parole.
The judge said this The issuance of the interim order does not appear to be proper This will affect the humanitarian parole process across the country, as there are states that have reported benefits and reductions in immigration admissions through that measure.
