SCOTUS: 532,000 migrants on Biden parole program can be deported

The Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration is allowed to revoke protected status for over

half a million migrants in the U.S. on a humanitarian parole program that was started

under the Biden administration. The 532,000 migrants currently in the U.S. under the program

came from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and were legally allowed to live and work in the

U.S. for up to two years while their asylum cases made its way through the courts. But now the high

court says Trump can restart deportations of this subset of migrants. And in a separate ruling earlier

this month, granted the Trump admin permission to revoke temporary protected status for another

350,000 migrants from Venezuela. So between the two rulings, the Trump administration is now

legally allowed to start deporting the near one million migrants in these two humanitarian programs

The entire case centers around this. On day one of his second term, President Trump ordered DHS

to terminate the parole programs in an executive order. DHS says the parole programs were an abuse

of the system. They were bringing refugees and I asked how they were vetted, how we were working

with their home countries to find out who they really were, what their intentions were and why

they were coming to the United States and received no information. According to the DHS

humanitarian program that allowed in 532,000 migrants, each applicant had to pass a vetting

process, have a domestic sponsor, and not be flagged for trying to enter the U.S. illegally

However under a government agency review of the program they discovered thousands of instances of fraud with sponsor applications According to an audit by the head of Immigration Records and Identity Services and a review by the House Judiciary Committee

some of the instances of alleged fraud and abuse included gang members and sex traffickers

signing up as sponsors to bring in migrant women, more than 80,000 non-citizens signing up to accept

parolees, an undisclosed amount of dead people were signed up as sponsors, and single home

addresses were used for dozens of applications. In her dissent to the Supreme Court ruling

Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson wrote the high court's choice to allow hundreds of thousands

of migrants to become deportable after being invited into the U.S. by the government to escape

unsafe conditions abroad is the wrong decision and will hurt migrant communities

Jackson wrote, no one disputes that social and economic chaos will ensue if that many non-citizen parolees are suddenly and summarily remanded

She warned of dangers in their native countries they will return to, destructive family separation

and the ruling would facilitate needless human suffering before the courts have reached a final judgment regarding the legal arguments at issue

The high court's ruling is temporary, allowing the Trump administration to continue mass deportations without extending protections to these parolees, while lower courts consider the legal challenge over the termination of protected statuses for hundreds of thousands of migrants

There's still a chance the Supreme Court could have the final say if the case makes its way back to the high courts

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