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The Herald Scotland
3 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."
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Supreme Court lets Trump revoke safe-haven program for Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on May 30 said the Trump administration can revoke for now the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans living in the United States. Two of the court's three liberal justices – Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor – dissented. Jackson wrote that the court "plainly botched" its assessment of whether the government or the 532,000 migrants would suffer the greater harm if their legal status ends while the administration's mass termination of that status 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 brief opinion was unsigned and did not include an explanation, as is common for action on emergency requests. The administration wants to cut short a humanitarian program that provided a two-year haven for migrants 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, in 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." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Supreme Court lets Trump revoke migrants' temporary status
USA Today
4 days ago
- Politics
- USA Today
Supreme Court lets Trump revoke safe-haven program for Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans
Supreme Court lets Trump revoke safe-haven program for Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans The administration's emergency appeal was part of its effort to get the Supreme Court's backing to ramp up deportations. Show Caption Hide Caption Homeland Security offers $1,000, flight home for self-deportation President Trump offered his support of a Homeland Security proposal to pay people who choose to self-deport $1,000 and open a path to legal re-entry. WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on May 30 said the Trump administration can revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans living in the United States. 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."
Axios
5 days ago
- Politics
- Axios
Federal judge blocks Trump admin from pulling Biden-era migrant protections
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Wednesday from revoking Biden -era temporary migrant protections and ordered officials to resume applications. Why it matters: The ruling that comes as the Trump administration is moving to escalate its hardline immigration crackdown affects thousands of people who came to the country legally via temporary programs from Afghanistan, Latin America and Ukraine. Driving the news: A lawsuit is challenging the suspension of processing applications for people from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. State of play: President Trump in January ordered the Homeland Security Department to terminate Biden-era "parole" programs that allowed people from certain countries to temporarily live and work in the U.S. due to humanitarian or public interest grounds. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani in her order accepted that the Trump administration has broad discretion on immigration policy, but said it was not wholly shielded from judicial review. The judge in Boston, Massachusetts, made a similar order in April regarding people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela given temporary legal status under the CHNV Program, which the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to overrule. "This court emphasizes, as it did in its prior order, that it is not in the public interest to manufacture a circumstance in which hundreds of thousands of individuals will, over the course of several months, become unlawfully present in the country, such that these individuals cannot legally work in their communities or provide for themselves and their families," Talwani said Wednesday. What they're saying: "This ruling reaffirms what we have always known to be true: our government has a legal obligation to respect the rights of all humanitarian parole beneficiaries and the Americans who have welcomed them into their communities," said Anwen Hughes, a lawyer for Human Rights First, which is representing plaintiffs in the case, in a statement Wednesday. The other side: Attorneys for the Justice Department in its appeal to the Supreme Court on Talwani's April ruling said that order "blocks the Executive Branch from exercising its discretionary authority over a key aspect of the Nation's immigration and foreign policy and thwarts Congress's express vesting of that decision in the Secretary, not courts."
Irish Independent
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Irish Independent
Taoiseach Micheál Martin not worried about legal action after deportees flown through Shannon in defiance of US judge's ruling
In the early hours of Wednesday, the flight landed at the airport in Co Clare, carrying eight men from the United States to Africa. The flight took off despite Boston judge Brian E Murphy saying that the actions of the Homeland Security Department, were 'unquestionably violative' of the court order and could amount to criminal contempt. Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he did not think Ireland should have any worries about being caught up in legal proceedings. 'I wouldn't think so,' said Mr Martin, speaking at the launch of the new Dosco cleaning supplies plant in Cork. 'First of all, there are various international agreements and legal agreements that pertain to aircraft landing and refuelling. 'It wouldn't be immediately apparent to Irish authorities in terms of the fact - and again, I think enquiries should be made – that there were any deportees on any particular flight. 'These are matters that we will review and engage with our partners in the US and indeed elsewhere, government to government, because obviously our planes fly and land in different locations to refuel. 'I don't think we are [liable for any breaches of court orders], but again, enquiries are being made. I haven't got a full report on it yet but the Department of Transport and Foreign Affairs [will provide one]. When questioned on when he can expect that report the Taoiseach responded, 'shortly, I hope.' Mr Martin said he wants to avoid a 'knee-jerk' response in potentially introducing diplomatic clearance for all civil flights following the incident. 'There are capacity issues there,' the Taoiseach said. 'But I do think trust is important, and so when planes fly through our airspace – if they are carrying weapons – there is an agreement that they let us know. Trust is an important aspect of relationships between countries in respect of honouring aviation covenants and agreements. 'We need to assess what has happened in the first instance.'
