Cases & Decisions, Federal Court Cases
District Court Judge Blocks Keeping Families Together Program
A Texas federal judge found that Texas and other states had standing to challenge the Keeping Families Together program and process and vacated the parole-in-place program for certain spouses of U.S. citizens as unlawful. (State of Texas et al., v. DHS et al., 11/7/24)
In a final judgment, the judge stated that,
"The court declares that defendants lack statutory authority under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A) itself (as opposed to under other provisions modifying or supplementing that authority) to grant parole “in place” to aliens, as that term is used in the final agency action published at 89 Fed. Reg. 67,459 (Aug. 20, 2024) (“Implementation of Keeping Families Together”), or to deem parole “in place” as used there to be parole “into the United States” for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1255(a). That agency action is hereby set aside and vacated pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)."
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 24110800.