The U.S. Supreme Court made a decision that allows President Donald Trump’s administration to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants currently living in the United States.
This ruling supports Trump’s aggressive stance on immigration and deportation. The migrants in question were granted immigration “parole” by President Joe Biden; however, the Trump administration moved swiftly to end this provision.
The big picture: The court suspended a federal judge’s order that had stopped the administration’s move to terminate the immigration parole granted to over 532,000 migrants by the previous administration.
- This decision could potentially lead to the rapid deportation of these migrants while the case continues in lower courts.
- Two of the court’s liberal justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, dissented from the ruling.
Driving the news: Immigration parole is a temporary permission given under U.S. law for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit, allowing recipients to live and work in America.
- Biden had used this tool as part of his strategy to tackle illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexican border.
- Trump’s executive order in January called for ending humanitarian parole programs, and the Department of Homeland Security subsequently acted to terminate them, thereby shortening the two-year parole grants.
Go deeper: Trump’s administration has been actively challenging court decisions that obstruct its immigration policies, including those targeted at immigrants. The battle over the parole status is just one of the many emergency cases Trump has brought to the Supreme Court.
- In another instance, the Supreme Court allowed Trump to end deportation protection for about 350,000 Venezuelans living in the U.S. Biden’s actions since 2022 have expanded parole options for Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans, leading to a shift in immigration policies.
