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The U.S. Supreme court says the Trump administration can start deporting half a million illegal aliens who had been given special protection by the Biden Administration.
These are foreign nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The Biden administration had granted them “humanitarian parole”
In March, the Department of Homeland Security gave them 30 days notice to leave the country. A legal challenge to that order can still go on in federal court, but the supreme court’s decision means the deportations can proceed for now.
The decision stays, for now, a lower court ruling that halted Trump's plans to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for some migrants living in the U.S., which allows individuals to live and work in the U.S. legally if they cannot work safely in their home country due to a disaster, armed conflict or other "extraordinary and temporary conditions."
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.