Texas trial over Biden policy letting migrants from 4 countries into US to wrap up Friday

By JUAN A. LOZANO
Associated Press

HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is making its final pitch to a federal judge to keep a key element of U.S. President Joe Biden’s immigration policy. It allows a limited number of people from four countries in the Americas to enter on humanitarian grounds. However, the judge is not expected to rule immediately on the legality of the humanitarian parole program once closing arguments in the trial wrap up Friday. Under the program, up to 30,000 people are being allowed each month into the U.S. from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Texas and 20 other Republican-leaning states have sued to stop the program.