June 6, 2025
A 4-year-old Mexican girl who has been receiving lifesaving medical care in California but had her humanitarian parole protections revoked by the Trump administration was granted an additional year of the protection after the family’s attorneys publicly pleaded for relief from deportation. Her mother was also granted an additional year of protection. The family had been granted humanitarian parole in 2023 when the girl’s mother had brought her to the U.S.-Mexico border because she suffers from short bowel syndrome, which prevents her body from processing nutrients on its own. The girl had been hospitalized in Mexico, but there was no treatment for her there. In the U.S. she has been able to live outside of the hospital thanks to treatment she receives through a backpack she wears that provides her with necessary nutrients.
On May 30th, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to terminate humanitarian parole for more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Humanitarian parole is temporary protection granted to people who are otherwise unable to enter the country for urgent humanitarian reasons. It is also granted to people from certain countries experiencing dangerous conditions or economic hardship. The people who received humanitarian parole from these 4 countries have been sponsored by U.S. citizens and permanent residents and are now subject to deportation proceedings unless they are in the process of applying for another legal status.
President Trump has signed a proclamation issuing a travel ban prohibiting people from 12 countries from entering the U.S. due to what he calls “security concerns.” The proclamation also partially bans entry for people from 7 additional countries. The ban begins on Monday, June 9th and applies to Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It partially restricts individuals from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. Many of these countries are in the midst of civil wars, violence or economic hardship, making it necessary for nationals to seek safety elsewhere. The ban does not apply to people holding valid visas or green cards.
On Wednesday, a federal court ended a 24-year-old Texas law that granted college students without documentation access to in-state tuition. The abrupt ruling came just hours after the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit suing Texas over the policy. Texas asked the judge to side with the DOJ and find the law unconstitutional, which he then did. Former Texas Governor Rick Perry signed the bipartisan supported Texas Dream Act into law in 2001, stating in a 2015 report that “[Texas] had a choice to make economically: Are you going to put these people in a position of having to rely upon government to take care of themselves, or are you going to let them be educated and be contributing members of society, obviously working towards their citizenship.” Texas was the first of 24 states to offer in-state tuition to undocumented students.
