Supreme Court rules Trump allowed to cancel legal status for 500mil

The administration can now cancel a Biden-era humanitarian program that allowed immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to live and work in the US legally.

The high court’s one-paragraph order — which contained no explanation of the court’s reasoning — lifts an earlier ruling from a district judge who had blocked the administration’s mass cancellation of the programs.

The immigrants who entered through the programs will now lose their permits to work in the U.S. and are at risk of imminent deportation, although many are expected to apply for asylum or similar protections.

Two Democratic-appointed justices — Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson — dissented.

The majority’s decision to allow the administration to cancel the programs while legal challenges were still pending will “facilitate needless human suffering” and will unleash “devastation” on the affected immigrants, Jackson wrote in an eight-page dissent joined by Sotomayor

While about 500,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan immigrants are directly affected by the ruling, it may have consequences for about 500,000 others allowed into the U.S. under the same parole provision, including Ukrainians, Afghans and children from Central America.

Prior to the ruling, immigrant rights advocates said they expected that if the Supreme Court ruled in the administration’s favor it would move quickly to end those other parole programs.

Although the court offered no explanation for its action, as is typical for rulings on the court’s emergency docket, Jackson’s dissent faulted the majority for failing to correctly apply its traditional standards for considering emergency appeals.

“The Court has plainly botched this assessment today,” Jackson wrote. “It requires next to nothing from the Government with respect to irreparable harm. And it undervalues 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.”

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