Court decision impacts migrants: The U.S. Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration authorization to revoke the temporary legal status of over 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela—at least for the time being.
This decision impacts roughly 532,000 individuals who entered the U.S. under a “parole” program introduced by former President Joe Biden. The program allowed up to 30,000 migrants per month from the four nations to legally enter the U.S. for a two-year period in response to ongoing humanitarian crises in their countries.
With President Donald Trump taking a stricter approach to immigration, his administration has moved to dismantle these protections. The issue was taken to the Supreme Court following legal disputes and a lower court ruling that had previously blocked the revocation.
The conservative-majority Supreme Court sided with the administration, issuing a stay on the lower court’s decision. The unsigned order provided no justification. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, warning of “devastating consequences” for the migrants involved.
Still on Court decision impacts migrants
In their dissent, the justices emphasized that the ruling forces migrants to choose between “returning to dangerous conditions in their home countries” or remaining in the U.S. with the risk of deportation. They stressed that the decision endangers both the migrants’ safety and legal standing.
Previously, lower courts had ruled against the administration, stating that the move to terminate the program was based on a flawed interpretation of immigration law.
Immigration enforcement has remained a central pillar of Trump’s political platform, which includes plans to remove millions of undocumented migrants from the country.
