


President Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem have just won another big victory, this time from the Federal 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, who just allowed Noem to revoke the legal statuses of Cuban, Haitian, Venezuelan, & Nicaraguan migrants who Joe Biden flew into the country.
Here’s the news via Bill Melugin:
A federal appears court will allow the Trump administration to move forward with revoking the legal status of more than half a million Cuban, Haitian, Venezuelan, & Nicaraguan migrants who flew into the U.S. via President Biden’s CHNV migrant flights mass parole program, reversing a Boston federal judge’s stay blocking the Trump admin from attempting to deport them.
A group of migrants and other special interests had sued the Trump admin for trying to revoke the CHNV parole status, arguing the move was illegal and offered no due process.
But the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals sides with the Trump administration, arguing that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has the authority to terminate the CHNV Parole under the Immigration & Nationality Act (INA).
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals writes in part:
“In sum, we hold that the Plaintiffs have not made a strong showing that they are likely to succeed in showing that the Secretary’s decision to terminate the CHNV parole programs exceeded her discretion as authorized by the INA.”
We all knew she had the authority and I’m so glad the 1st Circuit got this right.
In an unrelated ruling from yesterday, the 1st Circuit also allowed Medicaid to block funding going to Planned Parenthood.
The Trump administration can block Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood after an appeals court on Thursday overturned a lower court’s preliminary injunction.
Republicans in Congress included the one-year funding prohibition in their “big, beautiful” law, which President Donald Trump signed in early July.
The Department of Health and Human Services, however, has not been able to implement that policy change after a district court judge blocked it from taking effect in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood.
The Trump administration appealed that ruling to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which released a two-page order Thursday without explaining its decision.
The three-judge panel comprised Gustavo A. Gelpí, Lara E. Montecalvo and Seth R. Aframe, all of whom were nominated to their current position by former President Joe Biden.
“The July 21, 2025 preliminary injunction and the July 28, 2025 preliminary injunction are hereby stayed pending disposition of the respective appeals,” they wrote.
The left keeps swinging and missing.