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The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to move forward, at least temporarily, with plans to revoke the legal status of more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
This decision impacts roughly 532,000 individuals who entered the United States under a humanitarian parole program introduced by former President Joe Biden.
The initiative permitted up to 30,000 migrants per month from the four nations to legally enter and stay in the U.S. for two years due to the humanitarian crises in their countries.
As part of his renewed hardline approach to immigration, former President Donald Trump sought to dismantle the program. The matter escalated to the Supreme Court after lower courts blocked the administration’s move, citing flaws in its legal reasoning.
The conservative-majority Supreme Court granted the administration’s request to lift the lower court’s block, effectively allowing the policy reversal to proceed. The ruling was issued without a signed opinion or detailed explanation.
Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, warning that the decision could have “devastating consequences” for the affected migrants. They emphasised that the ruling forces individuals to choose between returning to perilous conditions in their home countries or facing deportation from the U.S.
Earlier court decisions had sided with the migrants, stating that the Biden-era policy was wrongly targeted and misinterpreted under immigration law.
Trump, who has made immigration enforcement a signature issue, continues to push aggressive plans to deport millions of undocumented migrants if re-elected.
