U.S. Supreme Court Approves Request to End Temporary Protection for 532,000 Migrants
Migrants deported from the U.S., 2025. X/ @TonyLaneNV
May 30, 2025 Hour: 1:16 pm
President Trump seeks to triple the daily number of arrests of undocumented immigrants.
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court approved an emergency request from the Department of Homeland Security to end temporary legal protection for 532,000 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti.
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The temporary protection, enacted during President Joe Biden’s administration (2021–2025), was overturned by a 7–2 vote. The court’s conservative majority backed the DHS request, while liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
With this ruling, the federal government nullified a previous decision by a Massachusetts judge, who had ruled that the Biden administration could not terminate the “humanitarian parole” program that allowed these 532,000 individuals to live and work temporarily in the United States without a case-by-case review.
“The court has quite literally botched its ruling today,” Justice Brown Jackson wrote in her dissent. “It demands virtually nothing from the government in terms of irreparable harm. And it downplays the devastating consequences of allowing the government to upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims remain unresolved.”
Now, those 532,000 migrants face two unsustainable options. They can either leave the United States and face “dangers in their countries of origin,” as the Massachusetts judge had warned, or remain in the U.S. after their parole expires and “risk imminent removal at the hands of government agents, with all the grave consequences that entails,” Brown Jackson added.
Roughly 10 days ago, the Supreme Court made a similar decision, allowing the Trump administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status for approximately 350,000 Venezuelan migrants.
Since beginning his second presidential term, former President Donald Trump has pushed to significantly tighten U.S. immigration policy by seeking to expel millions of migrants. His administration announced an ambitious and controversial plan to triple daily arrests of undocumented immigrants, setting a new target of 3,000 arrests per day — more than 1.1 million per year.
“Trump will continue pushing to raise that number every day,” said Stephen Miller, Trump’s chief immigration policy adviser, during an interview on Fox News.
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Sources: EFE – Fox News
