WASHINGTON, D.C. (WDNews) – The U.S. Supreme Court has granted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) permission to resume efforts to terminate a parole program that allowed more than 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the United States under temporary status.
In a 7-2 decision issued May 30, the Court stayed a lower court’s ruling that had blocked DHS from ending the CHNV parole program, allowing the case to proceed through the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The stay remains in place pending further judicial review or potential Supreme Court action.
The ruling is considered a win for the Trump administration, which has pushed to dismantle broad parole programs introduced under President Biden. The administration claims the programs allowed “poorly vetted” individuals to enter the U.S. and strain public resources.
“Today’s decision is a victory for the American people,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “The Biden Administration lied to America.
They allowed more than half a million migrants to enter through these disastrous parole programs, undercutting American workers and overwhelming immigration systems.”
The CHNV program had granted two-year temporary parole for migrants fleeing crisis conditions, allowing many to live and work in the U.S. legally. Critics of the Supreme Court’s decision, including Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent, warned of the devastating impact on families and communities.
Jackson wrote that DHS failed to demonstrate any immediate harm in continuing to honor existing parole grants while the legal challenge proceeds. She added that the stay could cause “needless human suffering” and prematurely unravel the lives of hundreds of thousands of migrants.
Despite the ruling, the case remains active in the First Circuit, and further legal battles over the scope of immigration authority are expected.
