The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to end temporary legal status for more than 500,000 migrants who were granted protection during the Biden administration, putting them at risk of deportation.
The decision issued on Friday grants the Department of Homeland Security reprieve from a lower court’s ruling that blocked it from ending a temporary parole program without considering each immigrant’s case individually.
The program, called the CHNV program, extended temporary parole to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who could pass vetting and had a sponsor in the U.S. for two years. The Biden administration started the program in 2022, and Donald Trump then issued an executive order shortly after taking office that instructed DHS to end the program.