After Supreme Court Rules Trump Can End Biden’s ‘Humanitarian Parole’ Migrant Program, 500K Face Immediate Deportation

On May 30, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Trump Administration can continue the deportations of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants who entered the country as part of former President Joe Biden’s “humanitarian parole” program.

The court’s ruling temporarily pauses the Biden-era program, which granted individuals from the four countries the ability to enter the United States on a short-term basis for humanitarian reasons, usually due to unsafe conditions in their home countries.

As a result, the current administration can now deport up to half a million individuals as they now lose their legal status while the case plays out in the lower courts.

Last month, 64 migrants participated in an administration flight for self-deportation.

The court did not provide reasoning for its ruling. However, a dissenting opinion was authored by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and backed by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Jackson, who was appointed by former President Biden, wrote that the court “plainly botched this assessment today.”

She added that the ruling 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.”

Boston US District Judge Indira Talwani had blocked President Donald Trump from his efforts to deport hundreds of thousands of people currently residing in the United States. She claimed that the orders from the Department of Homeland Security gave “no reasoned explanation” for suspending the renewals of short-term permits for migrants.

Talwani ruled that migrants, apart from the “humanitarian parole” program, were entitled to a case-by-case review.

The suit was brought forth by a group of migrants who entered the United States through the parole program and have been represented by the Justice Action Center along with other advocacy groups.

In an executive order signed by President Trump on his first day in office, he ordered the Department of Homeland Security to terminate the parole program. The first few months of Trump’s second term have featured a continued effort to carry out mass deportations of migrants.