President Donald Trump gestures to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on April 3, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images )
Justice Department lawyer Brian Ward argued during a Thursday hearing that parole programs were always discretionary.
"The nub of the problem here is that the secretary, in cutting short the parole period afforded to these individuals, has to have a reasoned decision," Talwani said, according to Time magazine. "There was a deal and now that deal has been undercut."
Immigration advocacy groups initially sued the Trump administration for its plan to end the parole program which began under the Biden administration.
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Then-President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington on Jan. 10. (AP/Ben Curtis)
The program let migrants and their immediate family members fly to the United States as long as they had sponsors in America, then they would be placed on parole for two years.
Fox News' Landon Mion and Reuters contributed to this report.
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