Overview
- U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston on Tuesday vacated the Trump administration’s April 2025 mass terminations and ordered DHS to return class members to their prior parole status.
- The Biden-era CBP One app, launched in 2023, let people book port-of-entry appointments and receive temporary humanitarian parole that allowed them to live and work while their cases moved forward.
- After Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2025, DHS shut down CBP One, canceled pending appointments, renamed it CBP Home, and in April 2025 emailed recipients that their parole was ending in seven days.
- Burroughs found the blanket revocations exceeded DHS authority because regulations require a determination that parole’s purpose has been served, and the suit described the notices as mass, unsigned emails with no individual reasoning.
- DHS said it disagrees with the decision and called it judicial activism, and an appeal is expected, while the practical impact remains uncertain because some recipients were deported or obtained other legal status.