Breaking News. The worst news for hundreds of thousands of immigrants on humanitarian parole in the United States is confirmed.

Bad news for humanitarian parole recipients: Supreme Court upholds revocation of parole for more than 500.000 migrants.

The Supreme Court of the United States gave the green light This Friday, the Donald Trump administration called on hundreds of thousands of migrants to cancel the humanitarian parole status granted.

The decision directly affects Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans who were legally admitted under the program initiated by Joe Biden.

Exposed to immediate deportation

With this measure, the temporary protections granted to more than 530.000 people are repealed, and they could now face expedited deportation proceedings.

The ruling suspends the order of federal judge Indira Talwani, who had temporarily blocked the program's revocation, ruling that the law required an individual evaluation, not a mass cancellation.

Only two justices from the progressive wing, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, voted against it.

The rest of the court backed the Republican administration's urgent request, which called the paroles a threat to its new immigration policies.

Trump ordered the cancellation the same day he took office.

On January 20, 2025On the first day of his second term, Trump signed the executive order to eliminate all humanitarian parole programs. This has been one of his priorities since taking office again. In March, the Department of Homeland Security made the measure official, shortening the two-year parole and halting new admissions.

The government maintains that eliminating parole will allow these migrants to be processed under "expedited removal" procedures, thereby reducing the number of people with temporary permits in the United States.

Biden had pushed for parole to prevent illegal crossings

Since 2022, Joe Biden has implemented the program to offer a legal path to migrants from countries with high migration pressure. First, to Venezuelans, and then, in 2023, to Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans. In return, they were required to enter by plane, pass security checks, and have a financial sponsor in the country.

The Trump administration, however, argues that these programs encouraged mass migration and overwhelmed the system.

Reactions and legal future

The plaintiffs in the case—parole recipients and their sponsors—claimed before the Court that they will be separated from their families, that they face risks if returned to their home countries, and that the government has blocked the resolution of their asylum claims.

The Department of Justice, for its part, argued before the court that upholding Judge Talwani's order would undermine the administration's immigration policies, approved by popular vote in the last election.

Now that the ruling allows the revocation to proceed, thousands of families are left in limbo, without legal protection and under the immediate threat of deportation to unstable nations.