The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to terminate a program that allowed more than 500,000 Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans to temporarily live and work in the United States while a legal battle over the effort to end the legal protections proceeds, Report informs via CBS News.
The high court agreed to grant a request for emergency relief sought by the Justice Department in response to a federal district court order halting Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's decision to revoke en masse a grant of humanitarian parole to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela through a special program.
The parole program, known as CHNV, temporarily protected roughly 532,000 people from the risk of deportation.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
Jackson, joined by Sotomayor, wrote that pausing the lower court's order "would facilitate needless human suffering before the courts have reached a final judgment regarding the legal arguments at issue," and she lambasted the majority for determining that it is "in the public's interest to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the dissenting courts decide their legal claims."
President Trump's administration has been steadily turning to the Supreme Court for emergency relief as it fights more than 200 lawsuits targeting many policies from the president's second-term agenda, though many of the court fights involving his efforts to crack down on immigration into the US have led to heightened tensions with the federal judiciary.