In a world of bad options, they played by the rules,” wrote U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb of immigrants with parole status.

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from fast-tracking the deportation of potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were paroled into the U.S. under former President Joe Biden's humanitarian programs.

U.S. District Court Judge Jia Cobb ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration cannot use "summary deportation" for anyone who had previously been paroled into the United States. Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney posted the ruling on Bluesky in which the judge shames the administration for using tactics many of those immigrants saw