News & Resources

SA v. Trump: Re-opening the Central American Minors parole program

This case challenged the Trump Administration’s 2017 termination of the Central American Minors (CAM) parole program. The program allows children in danger in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala to obtain humanitarian parole and to safely reunite with a parent who was already lawfully present in the United States.

Our clients

Our clients were immigration advocacy and assistance organization CASA de Maryland and a group of twelve children and parents who were harmed by the Trump Administration’s termination of the CAM parole program. 

Impact

Processing Re-opened. In March 2019, the court entered a preliminary order requiring the government to complete processing of approximately 2,700 conditionally approved children who were at the end stages of the application process when the program suddenly ended. In April 2019, the government entered into a settlement agreement that made the court’s order permanent.

Case Status

IRAP is continuing to monitor the settlement agreement until processing under the agreement is complete.

Arnold & Porter LLP is co-counsel in this litigation.

Follow the Case

  • June 13, 2018 | Complaint

    View Document +
  • July 12, 2018 | Plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction

    View Document +
  • August 24, 2018 | Defendants’ opposition to motion for preliminary injunction and motion to dismiss

    View Document +
  • September 17, 2018 | Plaintiffs’ reply in support of preliminary injunction

    View Document +
  • September 17, 2018 | Plaintiffs’ opposition to motion to dismiss

    View Document +
  • September 27, 2018 | Defendants’ reply in support of motion to dismiss

    View Document +
  • December 10, 2018 | Order granting in part and denying in part motion to dismiss

    View Document +
  • December 10, 2018 | Order addressing preliminary injunction

    View Document +
  • January 8, 2019 | Plaintiffs’ supplemental brief in support of preliminary injunction

    View Document +
  • January 22, 2019 | Defendants’ supplemental opposition to preliminary injunction

    View Document +
  • January 29, 2019 | Plaintiffs’ supplemental reply in support of preliminary injunction

    View Document +
  • February 6, 2019 | Order requesting additional briefing on preliminary injunction

    View Document +
  • February 11, 2019 | Plaintiffs’ supplemental brief in support of preliminary injunction

    View Document +
  • February 11, 2019 | Defendants’ supplemental brief in opposition to preliminary injunction

    View Document +
  • March 1, 2019 | Order granting preliminary injunction

    View Document +
  • April 12, 2019 | Settlement agreement

    View Document +
  • June 28, 2019 | Government’s First Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • October 1, 2019 | Government’s Second Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • December 27, 2019 | Government’s Third Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • March 31, 2020 | Government’s Fourth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • June 30, 2020 | Government’s Fifth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • September 30, 2020 | Government’s Sixth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • December 30, 2020 | Government’s Seventh Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • March 31, 2021 | Government’s Eighth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • June 30, 2021 | Government’s Ninth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • October 4, 2021 | Government’s Tenth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • January 3, 2022 | Government’s Eleventh Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • March 31, 2022 | Government’s Twelfth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • June 30, 2022 | Government’s Thirteenth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • October 3, 2022 | Government’s Fourteenth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • December 27, 2022 | Government’s Fifteenth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • April 3, 2023 | Government’s Sixteenth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • June 29, 2023 | Government’s Seventeenth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • September 28, 2023 | Government’s Eighteenth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • December 26, 2023 | Government’s Nineteenth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • April 1, 2024 | Government’s Twentieth Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • June 28, 2024| Government’s Twenty-First Quarterly Report

    View Document +
  • Court docket available here

    View Document +
  • Government and Central American Families Reach Historic Settlement, Paving the Way for Children to Reunite With Parents in the U.S.

    View Press Release +
  • Court Orders Government to Resume Processing Central American Minors In Terminated Humanitarian Program

    View Press Release +
  • Court Finds That the Mass Rescission of Humanitarian Parole for Central American Children Was Unlawful

    View Press Release +
  • IRAP Challenges Termination of Parole Program for Central American Minors (CAM)

    View Press Release +
  • Press Release: Groups File Challenge to Administration & Termination of Humanitarian Parole Program for Central American Children

    View Press Release +
  • SA v. Trump: Re-opening the Central American Minors parole program

    View Press Release +