Overview

• The Supreme Court granted an emergency application to allow the Trump administration to end temporary legal status for more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela while lower-court appeals continue.
• The order stays a Massachusetts judge’s April injunction that had required individualized review before terminating Biden-era parole protections.
• Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, warning of “devastating consequences” and predicting that many parolees will be thrust into removal proceedings.
• Nearly one million migrants, including about 350,000 Venezuelans affected by a separate Supreme Court decision, now face potential expedited deportation as applications for other immigration relief remain suspended.
• Biden’s humanitarian parole program, created in late 2022 to provide legal entry and work authorization through U.S. sponsors, continues to be challenged in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.