Judge Upholds Biden Program Giving Some Immigrants Short-Term Legal Status

A federal judge on Friday allowed the Biden administration to continue a program that it has used to give temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.Known as humanitarian parole, the program has offered people from the troubled countries an alternative to entering the United States illegally, and has been central to the administration’s strategy to curb the influx of migrants arriving at the U.S. southern border.President Biden has faced considerable criticism for his administration’s handling of the border, and Texas and other…