White House Celebrates Chance to Deport 530,000

St. Croix Times Staff

The Supreme Court's recent ruling allows the Trump Administration the right to temporarily revoke the legal status of over 500,000 migrants living in the United States.

The 7-2 ruling, put on hold a previous federal judge’s stop order on the Administration from ending the “parole” immigration program established by former President Joe Biden. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, two of the court’s three liberal justices, dissented. 

The new order puts roughly 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela at risk of being deported.  

The parole program allows immigrants temporary status to work and live in the US for two years because of “urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit” according to the US government.

The Trump Administration had filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the Administration from ending the program, also known as CHNV humanitarian parole. 

The White House ‘celebrated’ the opportunity to deport 500,000 ‘invaders,’ said White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to CNN. “The Supreme Court justly stepped in.” 

In her dissent, Justice Jackson wrote that the court’s order would “have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims.”