A federal district court in Massachusetts issued a major blow this week to the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, halting the government’s effort to mass-revoke legal immigration status for thousands of migrants paroled into the U.S. under the Biden-era CHNV program. The ruling doesn’t use the term “nationwide injunction”—but make no mistake, that’s exactly what it is.
The CHNV programs, launched in 2022 and 2023, allowed vetted individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the United States temporarily under humanitarian parole. But on March 25, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a notice terminating those programs and revoking active parole grants—without individualized review and without giving current recipients a way to contest their removal.
The court ruled that DHS overstepped, violating federal…
