Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States and stranded in Honduras disembark from a Conviasa Airlines plane upon arrival at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela on March 24, 2025.
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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 who had fled their home countries pending the outcome of an appeal of the president’s order.
Trump, on his first day back in the White House on Jan. 20, had ordered the Department of Homeland Security to terminate all so-called “categorical parole programs,” which had granted those immigrants protections from deportation from the United States and in some cases to legally work in the U.S.
A group of plaintiffs challenged the DHS’s revocation of the programs in federal court in Massachusetts, where a judge stayed the department’s action.
The 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld that decision, which the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to undo.
Friday’s decision by the Supreme Court means DHS can revoke the group’s protected status while the 1st Circuit considers an appeal of the order itself.
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