Supreme Court permits Trump to end legal protections for 500,000 people, putting more individuals at risk of deportation
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May 30, 2025
The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to end a humanitarian parole program that provided temporary legal status to over 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. This decision lifts a lower court order that had blocked the administration’s efforts, exposing these migrants to possible deportation and raising the number of people at risk to nearly 1 million when combined with a previous ruling affecting about 350,000 Venezuelans.
The program, created by the Biden administration, allowed individuals fleeing dangerous conditions to live and work in the U.S. for up to two years. The Trump administration argued that such protections were always intended to be temporary and that the Department of Homeland Security has the authority to end them without court involvement.
The Supreme Court’s unsigned order did not provide an explanation. However, Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, warning that the ruling could cause severe harm to hundreds of thousands of people before courts finish reviewing the legality of ending their status. The dissent noted the “devastating consequences” of abruptly upending the lives of so many migrants while their legal challenges remain unresolved.
As a result, migrants who benefited from the humanitarian parole program can now be targeted for deportation while lawsuits continue in lower courts.