By Molly Claire Goddard
2:07pm PDT, May 30, 2025
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The Supreme Court is allowing
Donald Trump to take away migrant protections.
On Friday, May 30, the highest legal authority in the United States
granted the president and his administration their emergency request to take away former President
Joe Biden's program giving extended safeguards for immigrants from four Latin American countries.
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The decision marks the second time the
Supreme Court has sided with Donald Trump since he retook office in January.
The Joe Biden-initiated program was a two-year parole given to 532,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, in which people could obtain a two-year work permit on the condition that they could secure an America-based financial sponsor.
Lower courts previously shut down the Republican administration's attempts to cancel the program, citing their failure to conduct the necessary case-by-case review.
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Two out of the three Democratic justices on the
court —
Sonia Sotomayor and
Ketanji Brown Jackson — issued a strong dissent against the ruling in Donald Trump's favor.
"It requires next to nothing from the Government with respect to irreparable harm. 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," they
argued.
"It is apparent that the Government seeks a stay to enable it to inflict maximum precision damage," the left-leaning judges added.
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While most Republicans were strongly supportive of the specific program being canceled, other right-wingers have voiced concern over the stripping of protections for certain migrants who tend to vote red.
"Obviously I understand what the president is doing and the administration is doing," Representative Mario Diaz-Balart from Florida explained in an interview with The Hill. "But logic would tell you that you probably have a better chance to have legitimate asylum claims if you're coming from places like Cuba, Venezuela."
