Supreme Court Decision Allows the White House to Revoke Temporary Protections

Just weeks after revoking temporary protected status from about 350,000 Venezuelan migrants, the Supreme Court has now paved the way for the Trump administration to remove temporary legal protections for half a million more people.

The court lifted an lower court's pause that continued protections for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. This move will strip the legal status and work permits of those who came to the U.S. through humanitarian parole processes, and they now face the threat of deportation.

In a dissent written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, it states that this ruling will have "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."