Supreme Court lets Trump end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries

WASHINGTON AP The Supreme Court on Friday again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly million The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than settlers from four countries Cuba Haiti Nicaragua and Venezuela The court has also allowed the administration to revoke temporary legal status from about Venezuelan newcomers in another circumstance Republican President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to deport millions of people and in office has sought to dismantle Biden administration polices that created means for foreigners to live legally in the U S Trump amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio with legal status under the humanitarian parole initiative were abducting and eating pets during his only debate with President Joe Biden according to court documents His administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge in Boston blocked the administration s push to end the initiative Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent that the effect of the court s order is to have the lives of half a million immigrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal suggests Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the dissent