On Friday, the United States Supreme Court allowed the administration of President Donald Trump to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cubans, Haitians and Nicaragen migrants living in the United States, strengthening the will of the Republican President to intensify deportations.
The court suspended the ordinance of the American judge of the American district Indira Talwani, who made the decision of the administration to end the “parole” of immigration granted to 532,000 of these migrants by the predecessor of Trump, Joe Biden, potentially exposed many of them to a rapid referral, while the case takes place before lower lessons.
The parole of immigration is a form of temporary authorization under American law in the country for “urgent humanitarian reasons or an important public advantage”, allowing beneficiaries to live and work in the United States. Biden, a democrat, used parole in the approach of his administration to deter illegal immigration to the American-mexic border.
Trump called on to end the humanitarian conditional release programs in an executive decree signed on January 20, his first day in power. The Ministry of Internal Security then moved to end them in March, interrupting the two -year parole subsidies. The administration said that the revocation of parole status would facilitate the place of migrants in an accelerated expulsion process called “accelerated withdrawal”.
As for most court orders issued in an emergency, the decision on Friday, opens a new unsigned tab and has given no reasoning. Two of the three liberal judges of the Nine Members court, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, are on the stock market publicly.
The court changed its decision by not explaining its impact, Jackson wrote in an opinion that accompanies him. The result, wrote Jackson, “underestimates the devastating consequences to allow the government to hastily upset life and livelihoods of almost half a million non-citizens while their legal allegations are waiting.”
The case is one of the many Trump administration has brought an emergency way to the highest judicial organization in the country seeking to cancel the decisions of judges hindering its radical policies, including several target immigrants.
On May 19, the Supreme Court also allowed Trump to end an expulsion protection called temporary protected status which had been granted under Biden to around 350,000 Venezuelans living in the United States, while this legal dispute takes place.
Biden from 2022 left the Venezuelans who entered the United States by Air asked for a two-year parole if they have succeeded in security checks and had an American financial sponsor. Biden extended this to the Cubans, the Haitians and the Nicaraguens in 2023 when his administration was struggling with high levels of illegal immigration of these nationalities.
A group of migrants has granted parole and Americans who serve as sponsors prosecuted, saying that the administration had violated the federal law governing the actions of government agencies. Talwani concluded in April that the law governing this parole did not allow the general termination of the program, which requires an examination on a case -by -case basis. The 1st Court of Appeals circuit, based in Boston, refused to suspend the judge’s decision.
“Traumatic impact”
Guerline Jozef, Executive Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, one of the complainants, spoke in the consternation of the decision on Friday.
“Once again, the Trump administration obviously proves their contempt for the lives of those who really need protection by removing their status and making them undocumented. We have already seen the traumatic impact on children and families who are even afraid of going to school, church or work,” said Jozef.
The Ministry of Justice said to the Supreme Court that Talwani’s order had upset “critical immigration policies which are carefully calibrated to deter illegal entry”, “effectively canceling democratically democratically approved policies which were strongly in the November elections” which made Trump.
The complainants told the Supreme Court that they would face serious damage if their parole was interrupted since the administration was indefinitely in suspension in processing their requests awaiting asylum and other help in matters of immigration.
Migrants with parole status reacted to Friday’s decision with sadness and disappointment.
Fermin Padilla, 32, waited two years in Chile to receive conditional release status and paid for his work permit.
“We have complied with all the requirements that the US government has requested,” said Padilla, who offers Amazon packages. “Now, I stayed without security because we don’t know what’s going to happen, we are without anything after so many sacrifices, it’s not fair.”
The retired professor of Wilfredo University Sanchez, 73, has a status of parole for a year and a half, living in Denver with his daughter, a doctor and an American citizen.
“I was alone in Venezuela, with diabetes and hypertension,” said Sanchez. “I was relaxed here, happy (my daughter), her husband and my grandchildren. I have all my medical treatment up to date.”
“Back to Venezuela is to die, not only because of my medical conditions, but loneliness,” added Sanchez.
Carlos Daniel Urdaneta, 30, lives in Atlanta for three years with the status of parole, working in a restaurant, since his arrival in the United States to earn money to send to her sick mother in Venezuela.
“If I have to work triple in my country, I will do it,” said Urdaneta, whose wife and son are still in Venezuela. “I am not likely to stay here undocumented with this government.”
