Supreme Court lets Trump move to unwind Biden-era CHNV parole protections

# Supreme Court lets Trump move to unwind Biden-era CHNV parole protections

The justices allowed the administration to keep moving against a humanitarian program covering more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, while litigation continues.

The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to keep working to revoke a Biden-era parole program that gave temporary legal status to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The order leaves about 530,000 people exposed to deportation risk while the challenge to the policy continues in lower courts.

The move came in a dispute over the administration’s attempt to end the CHNV humanitarian parole program, a pathway created under President Joe Biden for people fleeing instability in their home countries. Under the program, migrants could receive temporary permission to live and work in the United States for two years if they met the government’s humanitarian or public-benefit standards. The Supreme Court’s action pauses a federal judge’s order that had blocked the administration from terminating the program.

BBC News reported that the ruling put roughly 530,000 migrants at risk of deportation and that Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. The decision is not a final ruling on the legality of the government’s effort, but it does remove one barrier that had prevented the administration from pressing ahead while the case worked through the courts.

The dispute has become one of the clearest tests of how far the administration can go in dismantling Biden-era immigration programs. Trump ordered federal agencies on his first day in office to get rid of parole programs, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem later announced the end of CHNV parole. Supporters of the government move have framed it as a correction to a temporary status that, in their view, had become too broad. Opponents say it will uproot families and leave people who entered legally under a government program vulnerable to removal.

WOLA’s analysis adds that the Court had already temporarily paused a separate ruling involving Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Venezuelans. Taken together, the rulings show a broader legal and political campaign to narrow immigration protections that were expanded or preserved under Biden. For the migrants involved, the immediate consequence is uncertainty: they may remain in the country while the case proceeds, but they no longer have the same judicial shield that had blocked the administration’s effort to undo their status.

The legal fight also sits on top of a broader effort by the administration to narrow parole-based entry paths. On his first day back in office, Trump directed agencies to eliminate parole programs, and Homeland Security later moved to end CHNV parole specifically. That gives the ruling consequences beyond a single courtroom order: it is part of a larger administrative attempt to reverse a migration program that had already moved tens of thousands of people into work and residence status.

The immediate effect is not a final removal from the country, but a weaker legal position for the migrants who depended on the program. The debate now turns to whether the government can finish the rollback before the courts decide the underlying claims.