US Supreme Court Allows Trump to Cancel Legal Status of Migrants
The United States Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to move forward with cancelling the legal status of more than 500,000 migrants.
These individuals, mostly from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, were originally allowed into the country under a humanitarian parole programme introduced by former President Joe Biden.
The programme provided temporary two-year entry for up to 30,000 migrants each month, aimed at helping those fleeing difficult human rights situations.
On Friday, the Supreme Court removed a legal block that had stopped the Trump administration from ending the programme.
The decision was issued without explanation, and it now permits Trump’s team to start revoking these protections even as legal battles continue in lower courts.
Two justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, disagreed with the ruling.
Justice Jackson warned that ending the programme prematurely could deeply harm those affected, forcing them to either leave the country and face danger back home or remain in the U.S. and risk deportation.
The Trump administration argues that the programme was never legal to begin with and exceeded the limits of immigration law.
Lower courts had initially sided with the migrants, saying Trump’s legal interpretation was flawed.
However, this new ruling gives his administration the green light to proceed, at least for now.
President Trump has made stricter immigration policies a central part of his leadership.
In other recent actions, he has taken steps to deport Venezuelans accused of gang involvement by using a little-known wartime law.
Humanitarian parole has long been used by U.S. presidents to help migrants fleeing war or crises, such as Cubans in the 1960s or Ukrainians during Russia’s invasion in 2022.
