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The Herald Scotland
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Herald Scotland
Supreme Court lets Trump revoke migrants' temporary status
Jackson wrote that the court "plainly botched" its assessment of whether the government or the migrants would suffer the greater harm if the migrants' legal status ends while the case is being litigated. Jackson said the majority undervalued "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 administration wants to cut short a program that provided a two-year haven for immigrants because of economic, security, political and health crises in their home countries. Lawyers for the migrants said half a million people lawfully in the country will become subject to deportation, what it called the "largest mass illegalization event in modern American history." Labor unions and communities that have welcomed the migrants said they've filled gaps in key industries, including healthcare, construction and manufacturing. Nearly 20% of the workers at one automotive parts manufacturer are in the temporary program, according to labor unions. The Trump administration said it's determined the migrants' presence in the United States is "against the national interests" and the courts don't get to decide otherwise. The move is part of the President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration and push to ramp up deportations, including of noncitizens previously granted a legal right to live and work in the United States. The Biden administration hoped the program would deter migrants from those countries from trying to enter the country illegally. But the Trump administration cancelled people's work permits and deportation protections, arguing the program failed as a deterrent and makes it harder to enforce immigration laws for those already in the country. Immigrant rights groups challenged the change on behalf of the immigrants and their sponsors. A federal judge in Massachusetts said the abrupt curtailing of the program was based on a legal error, as the administration wrongly concluded that letting the temporary status naturally expire would foreclose the Homeland Security Department's ability to legally expedite their deportations. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, also said early cancellation of protections requires a case-by-case review for each participant. A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals backed Talwani's decision to temporarily block mass cancellation. All three judges were appointed by Democratic presidents. The Justice Department argued the lower courts are "undoing democratically approved policies that featured heavily in the November election." Lawyers for a group of cities and counties said the abrupt cancellation of the program "would case severe economic and societal harms."
The Hindu
3 days ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
Supreme Court lets Trump end humanitarian parole for 5,00,000 people from 4 countries
The Supreme Court on Friday (May 30, 2025) again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million. The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 5,00,000 migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The court has also allowed the administration to revoke temporary legal status from about 3,50,000 Venezuelan migrants in another case. Republican President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to deport millions of people, and in office has sought to dismantle Biden administration polices that created ways for migrants to live legally in the U.S. Mr. Trump amplified false rumours that Haitian immigrants in Ohio with legal status under the humanitarian parole programme were abducting and eating pets during his only debate with President Joe Biden, according to court documents. His administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge in Boston blocked the administration's push to end the programme. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent that the effect of the court's order is 'to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims.' Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the dissent. Ms. Jackson echoed what U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani wrote in ruling that ending the legal protections early would leave people with a stark choice: flee the country or risk losing everything. Ms. Talwani, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, found that revocations of parole can be done, but on a case-by-case basis. Her ruling came in mid-April, shortly before permits were due to be cancelled. An appeals court refused to lift her order. The Supreme Court's order is not a final ruling, but it means the protections will not be in place while the case proceeds. It now returns to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. The Justice Department argues that the protections were always meant to be temporary, and the Department of Homeland Security has the power to revoke them without court interference. The administration says Mr. Biden granted the parole en masse, and the law doesn't require ending it on an individual basis. Taking on each case individually would be a 'gargantuan task,' and slow the government's efforts to press for their removal, Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued. Mr. Biden used humanitarian parole more than any other president, employing a special presidential authority in effect since 1952. Beneficiaries included the 5,32,000 people who have come to the United States with financial sponsors since late 2022, leaving home countries fraught with 'instability, dangers and deprivations,' as attorneys for the migrants said. They had to fly to the US at their own expense and have a financial sponsor to qualify for the designation, which lasts for two years. The Trump administration's decision was the first-ever mass revocation of humanitarian parole, attorneys for the migrants said. They called the Trump administration's moves 'the largest mass illegalization event in modern American history.' The case is the latest in a string of emergency appeals the administration has made to the Supreme Court, many of them related to immigration. The court has sided against Mr. Trump in other cases, including slowing his efforts to swiftly deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members to a prison in El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act.
Time of India
3 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
1 million people to be deported by the Trump administration soon - these 4 countries to bear the brunt
1 million people to be deported by the Trump administration soon – these 4 countries to bear the brunt- In a dramatic move likely to impact nearly 1 million migrants, the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to begin mass deportations. The court's decision affects immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, who were previously granted temporary protection under a humanitarian parole program launched by former President Joe Biden. The ruling opens the door for what could be the largest deportation wave in recent U.S. history, targeting hundreds of thousands of people who fled violence, poverty, and instability in their home countries. Here's a full breakdown of what this means and who's most affected. What did the supreme court decide and how many immigrants will it affect? The Supreme Court's decision on Friday lifted a previous court order that had protected more than 500,000 immigrants from deportation. These individuals, primarily from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, were allowed to stay in the U.S. under the humanitarian parole program, a policy President Biden expanded in late 2022. In a separate case, the court also allowed the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status from about 350,000 Venezuelans. Together, that brings the number of people at risk to nearly 1 million immigrants. Although the court hasn't issued a final ruling, the justices allowed the deportation process to begin while the case continues in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. Live Events Which countries will be hit hardest by these deportations? The four countries that will bear the brunt of the deportation wave are: Venezuela Haiti Cuba Nicaragua Migrants from these countries were the main beneficiaries of Biden's parole program. To qualify, they had to fly to the U.S. at their own cost and secure financial sponsors. They were granted a two-year legal stay under this program. According to government data, more than 532,000 people came to the U.S. under these rules since late 2022. The Trump administration is now moving to cancel these permits before they expire, making this the first mass revocation of humanitarian parole in U.S. history. How did this case reach the supreme court? The decision followed an emergency appeal by the Trump administration after a federal judge in Boston, Indira Talwani, ruled against them. Talwani, an Obama appointee, said ending the program early would leave people with a 'stark choice: flee the country or risk losing everything.' She said parole could be revoked, but only case by case — not in bulk. But the Supreme Court overruled her order temporarily, siding with the Trump team's push for faster deportations. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissented. Jackson wrote that this move will 'unravel the lives of half a million migrants' before the legal questions are fully resolved. What is the Trump administration's argument for mass deportation? The Trump team says humanitarian parole is temporary by design, and the law gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the power to end it — with or without court approval. Solicitor General D. John Sauer, representing the administration, argued that revoking parole one person at a time would be a 'gargantuan task' and would delay removals. He also said the Biden administration abused the parole system by granting it en masse rather than assessing cases individually. The Department of Justice claims the parole program doesn't legally require individual termination, even if the beneficiaries met financial and travel requirements. Why is this considered the largest mass immigration rollback in decades? Lawyers for the affected migrants have called this 'the largest mass illegalization event in modern American history.' They argue that the Trump administration's actions amount to a blanket criminalization of lawful immigrants, many of whom have built lives in the U.S. legally over the past two years. This case is one of several emergency immigration appeals the Trump team has brought to the Supreme Court. In earlier cases, the justices had ruled against Trump, such as when the administration tried to deport Venezuelans accused of gang involvement under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely-used wartime law from the 1700s. What happens next in the immigration case? The legal fight isn't over. The case now returns to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, which will review the full arguments. However, because the Supreme Court lifted the protections for now, migrants could start receiving deportation notices soon, even as the case moves forward. Until a final decision is made, hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela will be left in limbo — unsure whether they'll be able to stay or be forced to leave the U.S. abruptly. FAQs: Q1: What is the Trump administration deportation plan about? It's a plan to deport nearly 1 million migrants by ending Biden's parole protections. Q2: Which countries are affected by the mass deportation order? Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela will be hit the hardest by this ruling.
Reuters
3 days ago
- General
- Reuters
Live updates: Supreme Court lets Trump revoke status of 530,000 migrants
a minute ago 12:01 EDT Ted Hesson The decision expands the pool of migrants who could be potentially deported as the Trump administration seeks to ramp up removals. Stephen Miller, a top White House official and the architect of Trump's immigration agenda, said this week that the administration was calling on federal immigration officers to arrest 3,000 migrants per day - 10 times the daily average last year under Biden. Trump vs. Biden on 'immigration parole' 19 minutes ago 11:43 EDT Andrew Chung Immigration parole is a form of temporary permission under American law to be in the country for "urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit." That allows recipients to live and work in the United States. Biden, a Democrat, used parole as part of his administration's approach by to deter illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexican border. Biden starting in 2022 allowed Venezuelans who entered the United States by air to request a two-year parole if they passed security checks and had a U.S. financial sponsor. Biden expanded that process to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in 2023 as his administration grappled with high levels of illegal immigration from those nationalities. Trump called for ending humanitarian parole programs in an executive order signed on January 20, his first day back in office. The Department of Homeland Security subsequently moved to terminate them in March, cutting short the two-year parole grants. The administration said revoking the parole status would make it easier to place migrants in a fast-track deportation process called "expedited removal." What led up to the Supreme Court ruling? 26 minutes ago 11:37 EDT Andrew Chung The plaintiffs, a group of migrants granted parole and Americans who serve as their sponsors, sued administration officials claiming the administration violated federal law governing the actions of government agencies. Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in April found that the law governing such parole did not allow for the program's blanket termination, instead requiring a case-by-case review. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put the judge's decision on hold. In its filing, the Justice Department told the Supreme Court that Talwani's order had upended "critical immigration policies that are carefully calibrated to deter illegal entry," effectively "undoing democratically approved policies that featured heavily in the November election" that returned Trump to the presidency. The plaintiffs told the Supreme Court they would face grave harm if their parole is cut short given that the administration has indefinitely suspended processing their pending applications for asylum and other immigration relief. They said they would be separated from their families and immediately subject to expedited deportation "to the same despotic and unstable countries from which they fled, where many will face serious risks of danger, persecution and even death." Justices Sotomayor and Jackson dissented 11:19 EDT Andrew Chung FILE PHOTO: Ketanji Brown Jackson in Washington, February 13, 2025. Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS As with many of the court's orders issued in an emergency fashion, the decision was unsigned and gave no reasoning. Two of the court's three liberal justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, publicly dissented. The court botched its assessment of whether the administration was entitled to freeze Talwani's decision pending the litigation, Jackson wrote in an accompanying opinion. The outcome, Jackson wrote, "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." 44 minutes ago 11:18 EDT The U.S. Supreme court published its unsigned order on its website Friday morning. The order tops Jackson's dissent. The Supreme Court lets Trump revoke 'parole' status for 500,000+ migrants an hour ago 11:17 EDT Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let President Donald Trump 's administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States The move bolsters the Republican president's drive to step up deportations. The court put on hold Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani's order halting the administration's move to end the immigration "parole" granted to 532,000 of these migrants by Trump's predecessor Joe Biden, potentially exposing many of them to rapid removal, while the case plays out in lower courts.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Supreme Court lets Trump end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries
The Supreme Court on Friday again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million. The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 500,000 migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The court has also allowed the administration to revoke temporary legal status from about 350,000 Venezuelan migrants in another case. Republican President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to deport millions of people, and in office has sought to dismantle Biden administration polices that created ways for migrants to live legally in the U.S. Trump amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio with legal status under the humanitarian parole program were abducting and eating pets during his only debate with President Joe Biden, according to court documents. His administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge in Boston blocked the administration's push to end the program. Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent that the effect of the court's order is 'to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims.' Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the dissent. Jackson echoed what U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani wrote in ruling that ending the legal protections early would leave people with a stark choice: flee the country or risk losing everything. Talwani, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, found that revocations of parole can be done, but on a case-by-case basis. Her ruling came in mid-April, shortly before permits were due to be canceled. An appeals court refused to lift her order. The Supreme Court's order is not a final ruling, but it means the protections will not be in place while the case proceeds. It now returns to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. The Justice Department argues that the protections were always meant to be temporary, and the Department of Homeland Security has the power to revoke them without court interference. The administration says Biden granted the parole en masse, and the law doesn't require ending it on an individual basis. Taking on each case individually would be a 'gargantuan task,' and slow the government's efforts to press for their removal, Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued. Biden used humanitarian parole more than any other president, employing a special presidential authority in effect since 1952. Beneficiaries included the 532,000 people who have come to the United States with financial sponsors since late 2022, leaving home countries fraught with 'instability, dangers and deprivations,' as attorneys for the migrants said. They had to fly to the U.S. at their own expense and have a financial sponsor to qualify for the designation, which lasts for two years. The Trump administration's decision was the first-ever mass revocation of humanitarian parole, attorneys for the migrants said. They called the Trump administration's moves 'the largest mass illegalization event in modern American history.' The case is the latest in a string of emergency appeals the administration has made to the Supreme Court, many of them related to immigration. The court has sided against Trump in other cases, including slowing his efforts to swiftly deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members to a prison in El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
