A federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden blocked the Trump administration on Friday from rapidly deporting migrants who previously had been paroled into the U.S. due to violence and oppression in their home countries.

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb ruled that the Department of Homeland Security was trying to change the rules midgame for people who had been welcomed on a temporary basis.

“In a world of bad options, they played by the rules,” Cobb wrote in her memorandum opinion. “Now, the Government has not only closed off those pathways for new arrivals but changed the game for parolees already here.”

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