The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday that the Trump administration may revoke, for now, Biden-era deportation protections for more than a half-million migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua, which their lawyers have called “the largest mass illegalization event in modern American history.”
The court granted the Trump administration’s request to lift a court order blocking it from terminating a Biden-era program extending humanitarian relief to migrants from those unstable countries, which has allowed them to temporarily live, and in some cases work, in the United States without being deported. Trump’s Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, revoked this program, referred to in immigration law as “parole,” in March.