Federal judge rules DHS illegally terminated immigration status of 900,000 CBP One migrants

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston rules on April 1, 2026, that the Trump administration violated the Immigration and Nationality Act by sending mass emails to approximately 900,000 migrants who had legally entered through the Biden-era CBP One app, telling them to leave. DHS sent the emails in April 2025, terminating parole status without the individualized adjudication Congress required. Burroughs finds the mass termination violated both the INA parole statute (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5)) and the Administrative Procedure Act. The ruling reinstates immigration status for all CBP One migrants paroled between May 2023 and January 2025. DHS calls the ruling "blatant judicial activism."