Washington - The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Trump could seek to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the last two years of parole granted to immigrants in the United States.
In two objections, the judge granted an emergency appeal and put aside a Boston judge's ruling, which prevented Trump from repealing the parole policy adopted by the Beaton administration.
The 2023 policy opens the door for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to apply for entry and work authorization if they have financial sponsors and can pass background checks. When they arrived at Biden's left office, 530,000 people from these countries entered the United States under the plan.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor disagree.
Jackson said: “The court clearly expressed dangers about this.
Friday’s unsigned order was not the final ruling, but it was a strong sign that Trump’s order would be maintained. If they think her ruling is correct, most people will not cancel the judge's order.
This is the second time in two weeks that Trump has upheld the power to revoke the massive Biden administration policy that gives some immigrants temporary legal status.
The first revoked scheme gave the country some 350,000 Venezuelans temporary protection status and feared they would be sent home.
The parole policy allows up to 30,000 immigrants in four countries to enter the country through temporary legal protection. Biden officials see it as a way to reduce illegal border crossings and provide safe and legal avenues for meticulously screened immigrants.
The far-reaching policy is based on the modest provisions of immigration laws. It said the Secretary of Homeland Security could “temporarily fall into the United States” “for urgent humanitarian reasons.”
After taking office, Trump ordered the end of the "all classification parole program." In late March, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that parole protection would end within 30 days.
But last month, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani blocked the DHS's "classification" termination of the Parole Administration. The law says the government can do parole "by-case" and she said it also shows that it must also be revoked on a case-by-case basis.
On May 5, the First Circuit agreed in a 3-0 decision that the "classification termination" of parole appears to be illegal.
Three days later, General D. John Sauer, a lawyer, filed another urgent appeal in the Supreme Court, saying the judge was beyond her powers.
He wrote that parole was “purely pure discretion,” and he wrote that legal judges were not allowed to review the decisions.
The Biden administration “approved foreigners in four counties,” but he said the Boston-based judge blocked the new policy because it was “absolute.”
He accused the judge of “unnecessarily critical immigration policies that were carefully calibrated to prevent illegal entry, tired of the privileges of the core executive and eliminated democratically approved political policies that were introduced extensively in the November election.”
Immigration rights advocates urge the court to put it aside for the time being.
They told the court that the appeal granted to the government “will cause great unnecessary human suffering.”
They said immigration “all people applied for a U.S. financial sponsor with permission from the federal government, passed security and other checks while still abroad, and were granted permission to fly to the airport here without paying the government’s request for parole.”
They added: "Some class members have been here for nearly two years; others have just arrived in January."
In response, Saul asserted that immigration had no basis to complain. He said they "full awareness that parole is temporary, at discretionary and can be revoked at any time."
The Biden administration began temporary entry into Venezuela at the end of 2022, and then expanded the program to people in three other countries in a few months.
In October, the Biden administration announced that it would not provide renewal of parole and directed these immigrants to apply for other forms of relief, such as asylum or temporary protection.
It is not clear how many people are protected by parole status only and can now be deported. It is unclear whether the government will seek to deport many or most of these immigrants.
Parole recently encountered obstacles in attempting to adjust its legal status.
In a February 14 memorandum, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service announced that the memorandum is in administrative holdings of all pending interest requests under the parole program for the plans of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, as well as Ukrainians, and re-rule for the family.
The memorandum said USCIS needs to implement "extra flag of review" to identify fraud, public safety or national security issues. But on Wednesday, a federal judge in Massachusetts ordered the Trump administration to lift its possession.
The Department of Homeland Security memorandum said the government could extend parole case by case. But Trump's lawyers say immigrants here for less than two years can be deported without hearings under the "accelerated dismissal" provisions of immigration laws.
Talia Inlender, deputy director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law, said the government should not be allowed to deprive people of legal status without good reason or notice.
Inlender defends the program from Texas challenges in 2023, and she says she hopes the Trump administration uses personal legal challenges to speed up the removal.
“So many people live online,” Inlender said. "These people did the right thing - they applied through legal plans and they were under scrutiny. I think pulling the carpet from under this way should offend our thoughts about justice in this country."