The US Supreme Court yesterday granted the Trump administration the authority to revoke temporary humanitarian parole for roughly 532,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela while legal proceedings over an effort to end the special legal protection continue.
The decision overturns a lower court’s ruling that blocked the mass termination of their legal status under a special Biden-era program allowing vetted migrants to live and work in the US for up to two years with domestic sponsors. Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, criticizing the majority for not considering the potential harm to migrants, including family separation and detention. The case is separate from other lawsuits challenging the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan nationals. The order comes a day after the administration published a list of sanctuary cities and counties that could be targeted for not complying with federal immigration laws