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Supreme Court lets Trump end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million.
The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 500,000 migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The court has also allowed the administration to revoke temporary legal status from about 350,000 Venezuelan migrants in another case.
Republican President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to deport millions of people, and in office has sought to dismantle Biden administration polices that created ways for migrants to live legally in the U.S.
Trump amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio with legal status under the humanitarian parole program were abducting and eating pets during his only debate with President Joe Biden, according to court documents.
His administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge in Boston blocked the administration’s push to end the program.
Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent that the effect of the court’s order is “to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the dissent.
walden
May 30, 2025 at 11:41 am
It’s too bad Biden/Harris lured all these folks into the U.S. with promises of various forms of special status and government benefits. However, the U.S. is more financially insolvent than any of the countries listed above and cannot be a refuge for everyone on the planet.
Bill
May 30, 2025 at 4:34 pm
Having been through the legal immigration process with my foreign-born, now US Naturalized Citizen wife, I might have a thought on this.
Naturalized US Citizens, although sympathetic to the plight of deported illegals, many of whom are good people and willing to work and assimilate, are pretty firm on their conviction that immigrants must follow the law…as they did.
Finding a hard-luck case in this world is rather easy. But, nations have to respect each others customs, borders and laws as they exist in the moment.
At one time, many immigrants were perfectly content to become Americans and Canadians through indentured servitude. They came over on the boat with passage paid for by their master. The immigrant was beholden to the master for a specified length of time, then freed.
Today’s drug trade has greatly complicated immigration matters. Laws must be very strict and the Naturalization process having moderate cost, travel expenses, sponsorship regulations and time-consuming. We don’t know of any short cuts, however. We made 3 trips to Homeland Security in Milwaukee, a small office guarded by armed employees. The process took 2 years even though both of us have impeccable backgrounds including college degrees.
Biden/Harris damaged the entire experience with pictures of huge crowds crossing the border, unimpeded, causing hopefuls to get the wrong impression about coming to America. It will take time to correct, but the current administration is on the right path.
Nick Berry
May 31, 2025 at 12:02 pm
Biden brought a lot of people in and what real authority did he have. How much did it cost to bring these people in to the country? How much has been spent on them at the cost to Americans. We heard the liberal cities beg for federal money to alleviate the financial strain on their budgets and citizens.
Now Trump is the bad guy for sending them back when they should not have been here in the first place. There is plenty that i vehemently disagree with what he has done and is doing but this is not one of them.