The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s policy abolishing an immigration parole program for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, The New York Post reported. The decision means more than 530,000 migrants could be deported.
Then-President Joe Biden implemented the program as a form of "humanitarian parole" for migrants from those nations ruled by authoritarian leaders. It allowed the migrants to stay and bring their immediate families for up to two years.
President Donald Trump targeted this program as part of his overall crackdown on immigration. The abolition of the program was initially blocked in a ruling by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani.
The judge, appointed by President Barack Obama, decided that deportations should not be a blanket issue but rather be decided on an individual basis. However, the high court overturned that decision Friday.
Seven of the nine justices decided in Trump's favor, with just the left-leaning Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting. "The Court has plainly botched this assessment today," Jackson asserted in her dissenting opinion.
"It requires next to nothing from the Government with respect to irreparable harm. 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," Jackson contended.
Jackson further claimed that the individuals involved would be subject to "irreparable harm," including dangerous conditions in their countries of origin and family separation. She lamented that the only other option is to stay and face "arrest and detention" by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
However, Biden's plan to import hundreds of thousands of migrants under the program is to blame for the conundrum these people now face. Trump is left to fix the problem, and the president was grateful that the high court was behind him in this.
"We had a great decision from the Supreme Court, thank goodness. That was very important," Trump said following the ruling.
Democrats are wringing their hands over a supposed humanitarian crisis this ruling is sure to create. However, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller explained that this was righting a wrong committed by Trump's predecessor.
"They have to be deported. You can't have a situation where the Biden administration can fly in half a million illegal aliens in the last 24 months and we're having a conversation about, ‘Oh, maybe they should get to stay for life,'" Miller said Friday.
“They've been here for 24 months. They were flown into our country illegally. The good news is the airplanes travel in two directions," Miller added. The clip was shared on X, formerly Twitter, by conservative commentator Benny Johnson.
🔥Stephen Miller on the Supreme Court ruling in favor of President Trump stripping legal status of the 500,000 criminal aliens Biden flew into the country.
He just doesn’t miss:
“They called it parole for those individuals.. Amnesty.. Now of course they're all subject to… pic.twitter.com/GGMJ2o0SxS
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 30, 2025
The Biden administration purposely flooded the U.S. with migrants over the last four years. Democrats claim Trump is the one who is to blame for the aftermath as he works to undo that agenda piece by piece.
