Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke Biden-era humanitarian parole program

The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled Friday that the Trump administration may revoke a stay-and-work permit issued by its predecessor to thousands of immigrants in the country.

The SCOTUS decision comes just hours after a Massachusetts judge, Indira Talwani, blocked the administration's decision to suspend the program known as "humanitarian parole." The judge had also demanded the resumption of the processing of new applications.

The ruling is not signed. The majority did not justify its arguments either. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did elaborate, who opposed the decision along with Justice Sonia Sotomayor. "The Court has plainly botched this assessment today," Jackson wrote, asserting, among other arguments, that the White House had failed to show that "irreparable harm" would not result.

She also accused her colleagues of having made a hasty decision: "Even if the Government is likely to win on the merits, in our legal system, success takes time and the stay standards require more than anticipated victory."

The judge focused on the "nearly half a million Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan noncitizens are presently in the United States" under the CHNV program, which grants two-year permits to immigrants from countries in crisis.

In January, President Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security to end the Biden-era parole programs.