Supreme Court sides with Trump on deportation of 500,000+ immigrants – including Cubans

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the Trump administration can revoke the legal status of more than half a million people from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti who entered the U.S through Biden’s “humanitarian parole” program. 

The decision grants the Trump administration the power to deport citizens from the four countries, even while an appeal on the president’s decision is still pending. 

The dissent from Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor says the decision “undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

More than 110,000 Cubans entered the U.S. through Biden’s “humanitarian parole.” If they have not changed their legal status, they are now at risk of deportation. 

A separate Trump decision has also revoked the legal status of nearly a million people who entered the U.S. through the CBP One online app, including thousands of Cubans.