On May 30, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the Trump administration can terminate a Biden-era special humanitarian parole program for an estimated 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans in the United States. The brief order was unsigned, with two justices dissenting.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said the majority’s “botched” decision “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. 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.”
