Supreme Court Lets Trump End Humanitarian Parole for Migrants

More than half a million migrants living legally in the United States now face deep uncertainty after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move forward, for now, with ending a Biden-era humanitarian programme.

The programme was introduced in 2022 and offered temporary legal status to people fleeing conflict and crisis in countries such as Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua. Its goal was to create a safer, more orderly process for migration and to reduce dangerous border crossings.

The court issued an unsigned order today, granting the administration’s emergency request to end the scheme, even as legal challenges continue in the lower courts. The justices gave no reasoning, a standard approach in emergency rulings, according to The New York Times.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissenting, warned the decision would have “devastating consequences,” disrupting the lives of “nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”

The New York Times also reported that the lawyers for the migrants say the revocation is illegal and could inflict “immense… needless human suffering.”