CNBC by Dan Mangan 5/30/2025
Key Points
• The Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump can terminate the protected status of around 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela pending the outcome of an appeal.
• Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in a dissent, said the ruling “undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.
• Trump had ordered the Department of Homeland Security to terminate all so-called “categorical parole programs,” which had granted those immigrants protections from deportation.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump can terminate the protected status of around 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela while an appeal of the president’s order is still pending.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in a scathing dissent joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said the majority of the Supreme Court “has plainly botched” its assessment in granting the Trump administration a stay of a lower court order that had blocked the termination.
“And it undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending,” Jackson wrote in the dissent.
“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,” she wrote. “The balance of the equities also weighs heavily in respondents’ favor.”
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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/30/trump-supreme-court-immigrants.html
