The Supreme Court delivered a major victory for the Trump administration’s immigration agenda by allowing the dismantling of Biden’s parole program for over 530,000 illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
This 7-2 decision enables the Department of Homeland Security to begin removing illegal aliens who entered under what critics call a deeply flawed program that undermined American workers and national security.
The Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision that had temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending the controversial CHNV (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela) parole program.
The program, implemented during the Biden administration, allowed hundreds of thousands of aliens from these four countries to enter and remain in the United States with temporary legal status.
Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin celebrated the ruling as a return to sensible immigration enforcement. She stated:
“Today’s decision is a victory for the American people. The Biden Administration lied to America. They allowed more than half a million poorly vetted aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate family members to enter the United States through these disastrous parole programs; granted them opportunities to compete for American jobs and undercut American workers.”
The DHS wasted no time announcing that parole would not be extended beyond the program participants’ initial two-year approval period.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has maintained that the program exceeded the authority granted under the Immigration and Nationality Act and abused the parole system designed for case-by-case humanitarian relief, not mass migration.
“Ending the CHNV parole programs, as well as the paroles of those who exploited it, will be a necessary return to common-sense policies, a return to public safety, and a return to America First,” McLaughlin remarked.
Liberal Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the majority opinion.
Jackson warned of “devastating consequences” and claimed the administration’s approach was “plainly botched.”
The legal battle began when Secretary Noem decided to terminate the CHNV special-parole programs earlier this year.
Affected migrants quickly filed a lawsuit challenging the decision, and U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, sided with them by requiring individualized determinations for status revocation, making it impossible to end the program efficiently.
The Trump administration argued that Judge Talwani’s order nullified a significant immigration policy decision that was well within the executive branch’s authority.
The Supreme Court’s decision allows the administration to proceed with ending the program while the case continues through the appeals process.
Moreover, this ruling comes as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to roll back what it considers permissive immigration policies from the previous administration.
In a related case, the Supreme Court also allowed the revocation of temporary protected status for nearly 350,000 Venezuelans, further demonstrating the Court’s deference to executive authority on immigration matters.
Immigration hawks are celebrating the decision as a critical step toward restoring order at the southern border and protecting American workers from unfair job competition.
With this Supreme Court victory, the Trump administration has cleared a major legal hurdle in its promise to prioritize the interests of American citizens over those who entered the country through what many conservatives view as legally questionable channels.
