Breaking News: Humanitarian parole revoked for all Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians in the United States.

They are left undocumented and without work permits. The measure, upheld by the Supreme Court, leaves more than half a million people in legal limbo and under threat of immediate deportation.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Donald Trump administration to revoke the temporary legal status granted to more than 530.000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who were living and working legally in the country thanks to the humanitarian parole program established during Joe Biden's presidency.

The ruling, which comes amid ongoing legal proceedings, leaves these beneficiaries without immediate protection and sets a precedent that could accelerate mass deportations in the coming weeks.

Furthermore, it effectively cancels their work permits, leaving them without any legal means to earn a living.

Split decision and devastating consequences

Liberal Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the ruling, warning of its impact.

Jackson warned that this repeal "precipitously disrupts the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million foreigners," and denounced the fact that many of them are already integrated into American society with legal sponsors, jobs, families, and native-born children.

A policy dismantled from day one

Since taking office on January 20, 2025Trump signed an executive order to end mass parole programs. In March, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed its cancellation.

Without valid legal status, these migrants are subject to "expedited removal," an express deportation procedure.

A federal court in Massachusetts had temporarily blocked the decision, ruling that each case should be analyzed individually.

However, the Supreme Court provisionally lifted the measure, paving the way for revocation while the process continues in lower courts.

Trump tightens immigration control

The parole program was promoted by Biden as an orderly and safe way to channel migration.

It allowed legal entry by plane, subject to a background check and requiring a financial sponsor within the country. In 2022, it was extended to Venezuelans and later extended to Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans.

The Trump administration has called this model "irresponsible" and attributes it to an uncontrolled increase in the number of people without permanent status in the country. According to its lawyers, humanitarian parole offered no lasting solutions and should be eliminated to restore immigration control.

More than 900.000 people at risk of deportation

If previous measures are added, such as the elimination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350.000 Venezuelans, the number of migrants affected by these decisions exceeds 900.000.

Human rights organizations warn that this is an unprecedented measure that could lead to an internal humanitarian crisis and severe family disruptions.

“An immense unnecessary suffering”

In the pending lawsuit, the migrants and their sponsors claim that the program's cancellation is illegal and will cause "an immense amount of unnecessary human suffering."

If not reversed, all beneficiaries will be left undocumented, without the right to work, and exposed to forced deportation, even to countries where they fear for their lives.

The Supreme Court has yet to issue a final ruling, but the signal has been given: Trump has a clear path, for now, to dismantle humanitarian parole.

Uncertainty reigns among the affected migrant families, who had gambled everything on a legal path to rebuild their lives in the United States.