Trump Cutoff Of Humanitarian Parole For Immigrants From Ukraine, 6 Other Countries Challenged

A group of American citizens and immigrants is suing the Trump administration for ending a long-standing legal tool presidents have used to allow people from countries where there's war or political instability to enter and temporarily live in the U.S.

The lawsuit filed late Friday night seeks to reinstate humanitarian parole programs that allowed in 875,000 migrants from Ukraine , Afghanistan , Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who have legal U.S. resident as sponsors.

President Donald Trump has been ending legal pathways for immigrants to come to the U.S. and implementing campaign promises to deport millions of people who are in the U.S. illegally.

The plaintiffs include eight immigrants who entered the U.S. legally before the Trump administration ended what it called the "broad abuse" of humanitarian parole. They can legally stay in the U.S. until their parole expires, but the administration stopped processing their applications for asylum, visas and other requests that might allow them to remain longer.

None of are identified by their real names because they fear deportation. Among them are Maksym and Maria Doe, a Ukrainian couple Alejandro Doe, who fled Nicaragua following the abduction and torture of his father and Omar Doe, who worked for more than 18 years with the U.S. military in his home country of Afghanistan.