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Trump Administration Seeks to Resume Mass Migrant Parole Terminations

4/25/2026

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The Justice Department said DHS is issuing parole termination notices from a memo by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) head Rodney Scott.
The Trump administration filed in Boston court to resume terminating thousands of migrants’ status, with a May 6 hearing.
Lawyers for Democracy Forward and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute asked the judge to block the terminations, citing Judge Burroughs’s ruling that DHS acted unlawfully ending parole for 900,000 migrants.

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The Justice Department said DHS is issuing parole termination notices from a memo by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) head Rodney Scott.
The Trump administration filed in Boston court to resume terminating thousands of migrants’ status, with a May 6 hearing.
Lawyers for Democracy Forward and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute asked the judge to block the terminations, citing Judge Burroughs’s ruling that DHS acted unlawfully ending parole for 900,000 migrants.