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Trump's administration has asked the Supreme Court to end humanitarian parole for 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, challenging a judge's ruling that blocked their deportation.
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UPDATED: May 9, 2025 02:26 IST
US President Donald Trump's administration has requested the Supreme Court to allow it to end humanitarian parole for over half a million immigrants from four countries, setting them up for potential deportation.
The emergency appeal, which was submitted Thursday, challenges a lower-court decision that maintained temporary court-ordered legal protections for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The policy at issue shields more than 500,000 people from deportation under humanitarian parole, which the Trump administration contends is an overreach by the judiciary.
“The district court has nullified one of the administration’s most consequential immigration policy decisions,” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote.
In April, US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, blocked the Trump administration from ending the parole early. Her ruling came just before the migrants’ legal status was due to expire, putting them at risk of deportation. She said the government’s explanation for ending the program was “based on an incorrect reading of the law.”
The Trump team disagreed, asserting that the law gives the federal government broad discretion to revoke parole programs. Sauer argued that the judge was instead wrong on the law, including her finding that any revocations of parole must be made on a case-by-case basis. He argued that ending the program early allows the federal government to remove people from the country more quickly, in line with the Trump administration’s policy goals.
The case is the latest in a string of emergency appeals the Trump administration has made to the Supreme Court, many of them related to immigration. The government asked the court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans last week, and it remains locked in legal battles over its efforts to swiftly deport people accused of being gang members to a prison in El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act.
Trump promised on the campaign trail to deport millions of people who are in the country illegally. His administration has also sought to dismantle policies from President Joe Biden's Democratic administration that created new ways for people to live legally in the US, generally for two years with work authorization.
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Published By:
Rivanshi Rakhrai
Published On:
May 9, 2025
