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 of a Boston federal court ruling that had halted the removals of the migrants, who had been granted work permits to stay up to two years.
Justice Ketanji 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.
The Boston-based US First Circuit Court of Appeals declined to intervene.
Around half a dozen migrants who entered the US via the parole program initiated the suit and have been represented by the Justice Action Center and other immigration advocacy groups.
Jackson claimed in her dissent that the foreigners faced the “irreparable harm” of family separation and other dangers in returning to their native countries — or “arrest and detention” by the feds. --->READ MORE HERE
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Justices Sotomayor and Jackson criticize decision as Trump moves to end protections for vulnerable migrants
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration from deporting roughly 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The decision is a near-term victory for President Donald Trump as he moves to crack down on border security and immigration priorities in his second term.
The order stays, for now, a lower court ruling that halted Trump's plans to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for some migrants living in the U.S., which allows individuals to live and work in the U.S. legally if they cannot work safely in their home country due to a disaster, armed conflict or other "extraordinary and temporary conditions."
The stay, like many emergency orders handed down by the high court, was unsigned, and did not provide an explanation for the justice's thinking.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson did lay out their criticisms in a blistering dissent.
Jackson said that, in their view, the court "plainly botched" its assessment, and failed to properly weigh 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."
"While it is apparent that the government seeks a stay to enable it to inflict maximum predecision damage, court-ordered stays exist to minimize — not maximize — harm to litigating parties," she added.
The TPS program is typically extended to migrants in the U.S. on 18-month increments, most recently under the Biden administration towards the end of his presidency. --->READ MORE HERE
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