A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Friday blocked the Trump administration from using expedited removal to deport migrants who entered the United States under Biden-era humanitarian parole programs. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb said halting the policy served the public interest and prevented “irreparable harm” to parolees, rejecting the Department of Homeland Security’s argument that swift deportations were necessary. The order shields potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants, who—under the contested directive—could have been expelled without access to lawyers or a hearing. Cobb, appointed by President Joe Biden, wrote that the government’s approach raised “a question of fair play” and cited Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s recent warning against policies that ignore statutory limits. The injunction pauses three Trump-era directives, including a January Homeland Security memo and a February ICE instruction expanding fast-track removals to parolees who had followed legal procedures to enter the country. In a separate ruling issued a day earlier, U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson in San Francisco temporarily reinstated Temporary Protected Status for roughly 51,000 Hondurans, 3,000 Nicaraguans and 7,000 Nepalis whose legal protections had been revoked last month. Thompson said the government’s move appeared driven by a pre-determined intent to dismantle TPS rather than an objective assessment of conditions abroad, and scheduled a hearing on the merits for 18 November. The twin decisions mark early judicial setbacks for President Donald Trump’s second-term immigration agenda, which seeks record deportations and a sharp rollback of humanitarian programs created under his predecessor.