Trump petitions Supreme Court to enable termination of migrants' lawful residency statuses
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In a heated legal standoff, President Trump's administration has taken their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, pleading to reverse President Biden's immigration policy that offered temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian, and Nicaraguan migrants living in the States.
The Justice Department petitioned the justices this week, urging them to halt the ruling of U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, who blocked the administration's attempt to axe the immigration "parole" granted under Biden. This move is an extension of Trump's hard-nosed immigration policies.
Immigration parole, as defined by American law, enables temporary residency for "urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit," allowing recipients to work and reside in the United States.
In their submission to the Supreme Court, Justice Department lawyers argued that Judge Talwani's ruling had disrupted "critical immigration policies deliberately designed to deter illegal entry," undoing policies that were key in Trump's election victory.
Trump rejoined the White House on January 20 and immediately signed an executive order to end these programs. Subsequently, the Department of Homeland Security announced its intention to revoke them in March, which would cut short the two-year parole grants for around 400,000 individuals.
Karen Tumlin, director of the immigrant rights legal group Justice Action Center, criticized the administration, stating, "The Trump administration is bent on punishing nearly half a million people who followed every rule set by them when applying for parole." She continued, "Everyone - sponsors, beneficiaries, communities, and the economy alike - benefits from humanitarian parole."
Since its introduction, the Supreme Court has been inundated with emergency requests by Trump's administration aiming to counter decisions obstructing their far-reaching policies, particularly those targeting immigrants.
Biden, beginning in 2022, allowed Venezuelan migrants who entered the U.S. via air to seek a two-year parole if they passed security checks and had a U.S. financial sponsor. Biden later extended this process to Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans.
Approximately 530,000 individuals received immigration parole through Biden's policy. The Trump administration asserts that revoking the parole status will facilitate the implementation of a fast-track deportation process called "expedited removal."
The plaintiffs, a group of migrants granted parole and sponsors, filed a lawsuit against administration officials, claiming they violated federal law concerning the actions of government agencies. In April, Judge Talwani decided that the law governing such parole did not allow for a blanket termination, instead necessitating individual reviews. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to suspend Judge Talwani's decision.
In their filing dated May 9, 2025, the administration alleged that Judge Talwani "seized the executive branch's control of foreign policy and immigration." They further asserted that the parole provision in federal immigration law empowers government officials with broad discretion to revoke such grants.
In the lower court, lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that the government's plan to "truncate parole en masse" misconstrues federal law and would cause lasting harm by making "hundreds of thousands of hardworking and law-abiding people across the country instantaneously undocumented and unemployable." The Supreme Court is yet to issue a ruling on the administration's emergency appeal.
- The Trump administration, in an effort to reverse President Biden's immigration policy, has taken their case to the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to terminate the immigration parole granted under Biden's administration.
- The administration's petition to the Supreme Court argues that Judge Indira Talwani's ruling, which blocked the administration's attempt to revoke immigration parole, has caused irreparable harm to critical immigration policies designed to deter illegal entry.
- In the general news, it has been reported that around 400,000 individuals would be affected if the administration's policy-and-legislation change were to be implemented, as it would revoke the two-year parole grants provided under Biden's immigration policy.
- The Justice Action Center, an immigrant rights legal group, has criticized the Trump administration, claiming that their plan to revoke the parole status of hundreds of thousands of migrants who followed the rules set by them during the parole application process is punitive and unfair.
- The Supreme Court is currently weighing the administration's emergency appeal, which claims that Judge Talwani's decision usurped the executive branch's control of foreign policy and immigration, and that the parole provision in federal immigration law grants government officials broad discretion to revoke such grants.
