A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from revoking the legal status of more than 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who came to the United States under a controversial program during the Biden administration. “The migrants came to the U.S. under Biden’s controversial CHNV mass humanitarian parole program,” Fox News reports. Judge blocks Trump from revoking legal status for 530,000+ migrants who flew into US via Biden program https://t.co/PGqBwkdsUZ pic.twitter.com/PgwNgyGF5G — New York Post (@nypost) April 15, 2025 Per Fox News: In her order, Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, wrote that each migrant needs to have an individualized, case-by-case review. “The Termination of Parole Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, 90 Fed. Reg. 13611 (Mar. 25, 2025), is hereby STAYED pending further court order insofar as it revokes, without case-by-case review, the previously granted parole and work authorization issued to noncitizens paroled into the UnitedStates pursuant to parole programs for noncitizens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (the “CHNV parole programs”) prior to the noncitizen’s originally stated parole end date,” she wrote. Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House. Biden created the CHNV program in 2023 via his executive parole authority. The program was launched in 2022 and initially first applied to Venezuelans before it was expanded to additional countries. The Biden administration argued that CHNV would help reduce illegal crossings at the southern border and allow better vetting of people entering the country amid an influx of migrants. “A federal judge in Boston has reportedly blocked the Trump administration from revoking the legal status of over half a million migrants who flew into the U.S. via President Biden’s CHNV mass parole program. Biden admin created the program out of thin air using his executive parole authority, and it was temporarily halted due to fraud in the program, and this judge is now blocking Trump from using his own authority to cancel the humanitarian parole grants,” Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin wrote. “Remarkable. The judge says there needs to be a case by case evaluation on each of the individual 530,000+ migrants who flew into the US via this program, and that parole cannot just be blanket revoked across the board as a whole,” he added. Remarkable. The judge says there needs to be a case by case evaluation on each of the individual 530,000+ migrants who flew into the US via this program, and that parole cannot just be blanket revoked across the board as a whole. pic.twitter.com/N2BFsf41Sq — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 15, 2025 From the New York Post: Boston US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, ruled that the migrants are entitled to a case-by-case review and declined to put her decision on hold while the Trump administration appeals it. “The early termination, without any case-by-case justification, of legal status for noncitizens who have complied with DHS programs and entered the country lawfully undermines the rule of law,” Talwani wrote in a 41-page ruling. “The court finds the balance of equities and public interest weigh in favor of preliminary relief.” At issue was the Biden administration’s Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) mass humanitarian parole program, which gave nationals from those Latin American countries a path to legal status in the US. The Department of Homeland Security announced the program in early 2023. Since then, an estimated 110,240 Cubans, 211,040 Haitians, 93,080 Nicaraguans and 117,320 Venezuelans were granted parole — or temporary permission — to stay in the US under the CHNV program.