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.

A federal judge on Friday blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “expedited removal” deportation strategy to detain paroled immigrants as quickly as possible. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb of the District of Columbia ruled that the Trump administration’s use of expedited removal exceeded the Department of Homeland Security’s legal authority,