The decision affects approximately 532,000 individuals who entered the U.S. under a “parole” program created by President Joe Biden. The initiative allowed up to 30,000 migrants per month from those four countries to legally enter the U.S. for a two-year period due to ongoing humanitarian crises in their homelands.
As Donald Trump resumes a hardline stance on immigration in his current campaign and policy agenda, his administration sought to dismantle Biden’s parole program. Legal battles followed, and lower courts initially blocked efforts to end the initiative.
However, the Supreme Court's conservative majority granted the administration’s request to lift the lower court’s injunction. The unsigned order did not include an explanation for the decision.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, warning of the “devastating consequences” the ruling may have on migrants. In their dissent, they wrote that affected individuals are now forced to choose between “returning to dangerous conditions in their home countries” or remaining in the U.S. under threat of deportation.
Lower courts had previously ruled that the Trump administration misinterpreted immigration law in its attempt to dismantle the program.
Trump has consistently made immigration enforcement a central theme of his political platform, including pledges to deport millions of undocumented migrants if reelected.
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