Overview

• A conservative-majority Supreme Court order stayed a Boston judge’s April suspension of the program, allowing revocation procedures to proceed while the appeals court considers the case.
• The dispute stems from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s March termination of a Biden-era initiative that granted two-year humanitarian status to about 532,000 Venezuelan, Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian nationals.
• Federal Judge Denise Casper had blocked the termination on April 14, citing the need for individualized case reviews rather than mass revocations.
• Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, warning that uprooting half a million migrants could inflict “devastating consequences” on lives and livelihoods.
• The appeals court will now weigh the administration’s argument for expedited revocations under immigration statutes, with potential implications for thousands of vulnerable migrants.