His legal team argued that the programme exceeded the government’s authority under current immigration laws.
The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to proceed with revoking legal status for over 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela enrolled in a Biden-era humanitarian program.
The unsigned order, issued Friday, lifts a lower court’s injunction blocking the termination of the parole program, which admitted up to 30,000 migrants monthly fleeing human rights crises. The decision could trigger mass deportations.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, writing: “This undervalues the devastating consequences of upending the lives of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.” Justices Sotomayor joined the dissent.