{"id":558792,"date":"2026-04-01T19:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558792\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:37:12","slug":"federal-judge-rules-dhs-illegally-stripped-immigration-status-from-thousands-who-entered-through-cbp-one-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558792\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge rules DHS illegally stripped immigration status from thousands who entered through CBP One : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775072232_234_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/7529x4235+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fcbponeapp_wide.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"People waiting to apply for asylum stand in front of a sign for the CBP One app as they camp near the pedestrian entrance to the San Isidro Port of Entry, linking Tijuana, Mexico with San Diego.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                People waiting to apply for asylum stand in front of a sign for the CBP One app as they camp near the pedestrian entrance to the San Isidro Port of Entry, linking Tijuana, Mexico with San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>                    Gregory Bull\/AP<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Gregory Bull\/AP<\/p>\n<p>            <img data-original=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/7529x4235+0+0\/resize\/2600\/quality\/100\/format\/jpeg\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fcbponeapp_wide.jpg\" alt=\"People waiting to apply for asylum stand in front of a sign for the CBP One app as they camp near the pedestrian entrance to the San Isidro Port of Entry, linking Tijuana, Mexico with San Diego.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">People waiting to apply for asylum stand in front of a sign for the CBP One app as they camp near the pedestrian entrance to the San Isidro Port of Entry, linking Tijuana, Mexico with San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>            Gregory Bull\/AP<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge in Boston Tuesday<a href=\"https:\/\/democracyforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026.03.31-DE-48-Judge-Allison-D.-Burroughs_-MEMORANDUM-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> ruled <\/a>that the Trump administration violated the law when it ended the immigration status of nearly 900,000 migrants who came to the U.S. through a Biden-era parole program called CBP One.<\/p>\n<p>The program allowed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/07\/30\/nx-s1-5051615\/border-migrant-crossings-mexico-us-illegal-cbpone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">migrants waiting in Mexico<\/a> to schedule an interview to report to a port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border. After being vetted, they then were allowed into the country while waiting for their asylum claims to be heard in court.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration abruptly cancelled CBP One in April of last year. The administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/04\/08\/g-s1-58984\/cbp-one-app-migrants-dhs-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sent emails to the migrants<\/a>, notifying them that their status had been revoked, and encouraging them to leave the U.S. as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>But U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs, of Boston, said in her ruling that &#8220;when Defendants terminated the impacted noncitizens&#8217; parole without observing the process mandated by statute and by their own regulations, they took action that was &#8216;not in accordance with law.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to NPR, the Department of Homeland Security called the ruling &#8220;blatant judicial activism&#8221; that undermines the president&#8217;s authority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under federal law, DHS had full authority to revoke parole. Canceling these paroles is a promise kept to the American people to secure our borders and protect our national security,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>CBP One was started in 2023. The ruling applies for all migrants who came into the U.S. using the app from May 16, 2023 to Jan. 19, 2025. Tuesday&#8217;s ruling reinstates the immigration status of those who came via CBP One and whose status was terminated. This means nearly 900,000 immigrants could be temporarily protected from deportation.<\/p>\n<p>Skye Perryman, the president of Democracy Forward, an organization representing the plaintiffs, called Tuesday&#8217;s ruling &#8220;a clear rejection of an administration that has tried to erase lawful status for hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our clients followed the law: they waited, registered, were inspected, and were granted parole under the law,&#8221; Perryman said in a statement. &#8220;The Trump-Vance administration&#8217;s effort to tear this status away overnight was unlawful and cruel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People waiting to apply for asylum stand in front of a sign for the CBP One app as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-558792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}