US court rejects Trump bid to revoke migrants’ status

The administration argued that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had the discretion to end the migrants’ status categorically and that the judge’s order was forcing the U.S. government to “retain hundreds of thousands of aliens in the country against its will.”

But a three-judge panel comprised entirely of appointees of Democratic presidents said Noem “has not at this point made a ‘strong showing’ that her categorical termination of plaintiffs’ parole is likely to be sustained on appeal.”

Karen Tumlin, a lawyer whose immigrant rights group Justice Action Centre pursued the case, welcomed the court’s decision.

She called the administration’s actions “reckless and illegal.”

The administration could now ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.

“The Trump administration is committed to restoring the rule of law to our immigration system,” Homeland Security Department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

“No lawsuit, not this one or any other, is going to stop us from doing that.”