The US Supreme Court has reversed a federal district court ruling that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
The court also allowed the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 350,000 Venezuelan migrants, said Xinhua news agency.
The ruling allows the Trump administration to dismantle temporary lawful protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, threatening to expose nearly one million individuals to deportation, local media reported on Friday.
In order to control the rising migrant tide on the US-Mexico border, the Biden government had introduced in late 2022 and early 2023 a parole program for migrants from these four nations, permitting them to work and reside legally in the US for two years once they undergo a screening process. Around 532,000 migrants were covered under this protection.
But shortly after being sworn into his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to terminate all parole programs. In acting on this, Noem announced in March the program's end, with all current parole grants running out by April 24.
A Massachusetts federal district court judge had suspended Noem's ruling after 23 people, including parole recipients and a nonprofit, appealed the cancellation. The Trump administration's appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit failed to suspend the district court order, and therefore the administration appealed to the Supreme Court, which has now ruled in favor of the government.
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