WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can restart deportations of up to 530,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants who entered the US as part of a controversial “humanitarian parole” program under former President Joe Biden.
Seven of the high court’s justices granted the stay on a Boston federal court ruling that had halted the removals.
Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson authored a dissenting opinion, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor joining her.
“The Court has plainly botched this assessment today,” Jackson seethed. “It requires next to nothing from the Government with respect to irreparable harm.”
The Biden-appointed justice also warned of “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.”
“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,” she added, saying the majority was allowing the Trump admin “to inflict maximum predecision damage.”
Boston US District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, had blocked Trump from the unilateral move, saying the migrants in the so-called “CHNV program” were entitled to a case-by-case review.
Trump ordered Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to terminate the parole program pursuant to an executive order he signed on his first day in the Oval Office.
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