Blow to Texas: Judge upholds Biden's program granting short-term legal status to thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela

Federal Judge Drew B. Tipton ruled against Texas and upheld the Biden administration's humanitarian parole program, better known as the parole program. This allows 30,000 migrants to enter the U.S. per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

The judge's decision to uphold Biden's parole policy, which he considers to be one of the administration's essential immigration programs, is a hard blow to Texas and the Republican states that filed an appeal to stop the program.

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In total, the initiative allows up to 360,000 people to legally enter the U.S. per year if they have the support of a financial sponsor.

The Biden administration, which has been challenged by this policy, argues that the temporary status program deters migrants from these countries from illegally crossing the U.S. southern border, contributing to the growing immigration crisis affecting the country since Biden's inauguration.

Despite the efforts of Texas and other states, Judge Tipton from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas argued in his 31-page ruling that the program is vital to border policy and that stopping it could be detrimental to the immigration situation.

The federal judge concluded that states would not be harmed by the policy, explaining that parole is intended to curb illegal border crossings.

"The Parties do agree, however, that the record establishes that the number of CHNV (Cuban, Nicaraguans, Haitian, Venezuelan) nationals entering the United States since the program's implementation has dramatically decreased by as much as 44 percent. Plaintiffs, therefore, are unable to demonstrate that they have been injured by the program, and as a result, they lack standing to bring these claims," Judge Tipton wrote.