Who Are We To Blame For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Migrants Who Now Might Get To Stay?

Over 900,000 migrants may have been paroled into the United States between May 16, 2023 and January 19, 2025, thanks to former President Joe Biden’s CBP One app. The Trump administration told those migrants to hit the road in April 2025. 

In an act of stunning overreach, a district court judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday to restore the parole status of those potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants. (RELATED: ‘A Brazen Interpretation, Indeed!’: Federal Judge Blocks Construction Of Trump’s Grand White House Ballroom) 

In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs certified the following class: “All individuals who (i) scheduled their appointments for entry to the United States using the CBP One app; (ii) were paroled into the United States between May 16, 2023 and January 19, 2025; (iii) had their parole terminated in April 2025 pursuant to an email substantially similar to the one reproduced at paragraph 38 of the Complaint without any further explanation; and (iv) remain in the United States.”

That termination email reads, in part: “It is time for you to leave the United States. You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) paroled you into the United [States] for a limited parole period … DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole. Unless it expires sooner, your parole will terminate 7 days from the date of this notice … Again, DHS is terminating your parole. Do not attempt to remain in the United States—the federal government will find you. Please depart the United States immediately.”

Burroughs’ ruling opens the door for class action lawsuits from migrants who belong to the described group. 

“The terminations of class members’ parole statuses announced by the April 2025 Termination Email are VACATED … Defendants are ordered to return class members to the parole status that they held prior to the April 2025 Termination Email,” Burroughs declares. (RELATED: Meet The Judge Who Was Trump’s Biggest Legal Nemesis In His First Year) 

🚨 BREAKING: In a psychotic decision, Leftist Judge Allison Burroughs just ruled President Trump must RESTORE 900,000 MIGRANTS’ legal status who were told to leave through the CBP Home App

This is a traitor to this nation, facilitating invasion. Impeach and APPEAL.

The migrants… pic.twitter.com/HqMymKbz8v

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 1, 2026

Burroughs acknowledges that the DHS secretary does not have to proceed on a case-by-case basis in terminating parole status. The secretary has “unreviewable discretion” in determining whether, “on a categorical basis … the purposes of parole have been served—thus terminating parole.” 

But, Burroughs says, DHS lacked evidence demonstrating that the secretary had indeed made the determination that the parole’s purposes had been served before terminating that parole. In other words: Burroughs argues that termination of parole is not evidence that the secretary believed the parole’s purposes had been served.

Burroughs, citing the First Circuit, writes that parole may be terminated “upon accomplishment of the purpose for which parole was authorized or when in the opinion of [an authorized official], neither humanitarian reasons nor public benefit warrants the continued presence of the alien in the United States.” 

So then, what was the purpose of the parole? 

The de jure purpose was to process asylum claims. The de facto purpose was to import unvetted migrants into the United States. The Biden administration successfully accomplished this end. 

“[T]he regulations require parole terminations to be supported by some record of a decision by an authorized official that the purposes of parole have been served,” claims Burroughs.

You can flood the country with nearly one million aliens, but to remove them, you need a record of that decision that satisfies a district judge. It seems abundantly clear that former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem believed the public benefit was not served by the continued presence of the 900,000 or so parolees. But because, in the court’s view, Noem failed to explicitly spell that out, DHS’ actions were unlawful. 

Burroughs’ ruling is a formal declaration of double standards. 

It is perfectly legal for a Democratic administration to ship millions of aliens into the United States. It is not legal for a Republican administration to deport those people. 

Who do we have to blame for this state of affairs?

In the first place, Burroughs. Like other district judges, Burroughs appears intent on legislating from the bench. We might also blame the Biden administration for flooding the United States with aliens. We could blame former President Barack Obama, who nominated Burroughs to the bench in 2014.

Moreover, why do district court judges wield such tremendous power in the first place?

We might credit 20th century “progressives” for building an administrative state which empowers judges to transcend their traditional duties. This bureaucratic development is responsible for many of the evils imposed on American citizens over the past century.

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