The Supreme Court on Friday once again clarified the path the Trump administration could take away temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants so far, pushing the total number of new potential deportations to nearly one million.
The judge lifted a low-court order that maintains protections for humanitarian parolees for more than half a million immigrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The court also allowed the administration to revoke its temporary legal status from around 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants in another case.
Republican President Donald Trump has pledged a campaign trail to deport millions of people, and is now in office, seeking to dismantle the Biden administration’s policies that created ways for immigrants to live legally for Trump in the United States.
His administration filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court after a federal judge in Boston blocked the administration from pushing for the program to end.