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President Donald Trump’s administration can temporarily overturn the legal status of over 500,000 migrants living in the United States, the US Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
The decision placed the order of the previous federal judge, which stopped the administration from terminating the Immigration Program for “conditional release” created by former President Joe Biden. The program protects immigrants running from economic and political turmoil in their home countries.
The new order puts approximately 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela at risk of being deported.
Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, two of the three liberal judges of the court, did not agree.
The conditional release program allows the temporary status of immigrants to work and live in the United States for two years due to “emergency humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit”, according to the US government.
The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after a Federal Judge at Massachusetts blocked the administration from the termination of the program, also known as HNV humanitarian conditional release.
The White House “celebrates” the opportunity to deport 500,000 “invaders”, the White House Deputy Chief Stephen Miller told CNN. “The Supreme Court just came in.”
In his disagreement, justice Jackson wrote that the court’s order “will” the life of half a million migrants “spattered everywhere around us before the courts resolve their legal claims.”
On the day he took office, Trump signed an enforcement order directing the Ministry of Interior Security to get rid of conditional release programs. After that, in March, Interior Security Minister Christie Nobody announced the end of the humanitarian conditional release from CHNV.
Several groups for immigrant and migrants from the program have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration because of the decision, claiming that they can “raise serious risks of danger, persecution and even death” if they are deported to their countries.
The decision comes after the Supreme Court earlier this month has allowed Trump employees to overturn the temporary protective status (TPS) – a separate program – for about 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants living and working in the United States.
Humanitarian conditional release programs have been used for decades to allow immigrants to flee the war and other turbulent conditions in their home countries to come to the United States, including the Cubans in the 60s after the revolution.
The Biden administration also set up a conditional release program in 2022 for Ukrainians who fled after Russia’s invasion.