The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Trump can end the protected status of around 500,000 illegal immigrants from four nations while an appeal of the president’s order remains pending.
The migrants, from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela were allowed into the U.S. as a result of a parole program set up by the Biden administration. Trump revoked that program, but a lower court had blocked his order until today’s ruling.
Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, two of the court’s three liberal justices, dissented from the court’s decision, but the third, Justice Elena Kagan, joined with the majority.
The ruling comes two weeks after the court also allowed the administration to revoke the status of nearly 350,000 Venezuelans.