Homeland Security officers speak with a federal agent while patrolling immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on Oct. 16, 2025, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
"This administration is ending the abuse of humanitarian parole which allowed poorly vetted aliens to circumvent the traditional parole process. Parole was never intended to be used in this way, and DHS is returning parole to a case-by-case basis as intended by Congress. Ending the FRP programs is a necessary return to common-sense policies and a return to America First," read a press release from the agency.
DHS said it would provide individual notice to parole recipients, informing them that their parole and related work authorization were being terminated.
It noted that the terminations, set to take effect Jan. 14, would not apply to parole recipients who had filed a Form I-485, an application for permanent residency, by Dec. 15, 2025, and whose applications remain pending.
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Talwani wrote that DHS likely failed to provide the individualized written notice required before ending recipients’ status, finding little evidence that people were actually notified through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) online accounts or by mail.
"The Federal Register Notice opined that ‘all FRP parolees under the modernized programs should have a USCIS online account’ and that ‘DHS will . . . provide individual notice to each parolee through their USCIS online account,’" the federal judge explained.
People wait to enter the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on Oct. 15, 2025, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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"But nothing in the record before the court suggests that most, let alone all, parolees do in fact have such accounts or when notice via such accounts was provided to the parolees."
Talwani ordered DHS to produce records explaining its decision by Jan. 13. She then set an expedited schedule for the government to file its legal response by Jan. 15, with plaintiffs given until Jan. 20 to reply.
Ashley Carnahan is a writer at Fox News Digital.
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