The Supreme Court has approved the Trump administration’s request to end temporary legal status for over 500,000 immigrants from four countries, reversing a Biden-era policy
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status granted to over 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela under a Biden-era policy. The court approved an emergency request by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to end the CHNV parole program, which had permitted eligible migrants to live and work in the U.S. for two years.
Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. Jackson wrote the court ignored “the devastating consequences of allowing the government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”
The decision halts a lower court ruling requiring individualized assessments before revocation. The program, created by former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in 2022, aimed to ease pressure on the southern border. Advocates warned that affected immigrants now risk becoming undocumented, unemployable, and subject to expulsion as litigation over the program continues.