The U.S. Supreme Court has permitted the Trump administration to revoke “parole” for more than 500,000 “migrants.”
The ruling means that the “migrants” imported under the Biden administration’s unlawful CHNV program — meaning Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans — can be deported back home where they belong. President Joe Biden imported them to become Democratic voters under the guise of humanitarian relief.
Today’s ruling marks the second recent victory for Trump before the Court on deportation. Earlier this month, SCOTUS stayed a lower court order that blocked Trump from revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 Venezuelans.
Legal Battle Begins
Trump’s fight began when Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem ended the parole program for the “migrants” on March 25. She told the parolees in a letter dated March 24 that their parole would end in 30 days.
“Your parole will terminate upon the earlier of (1) your original parole expiration date or (2) April 24, 2025,” the letter says:
You should depart the United States now, but no later than the date of the termination of your parole. Failure to timely depart may have adverse immigration consequences.
As of the termination of your parole, you may be subject to expedited removal pursuant to section 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) or removal proceedings pursuant to section 240 of the INA, either of which may result in your removal, unless you have departed from the United States or have obtained a lawful basis to remain within the United States.
And if the “parolees” accrue 180 days of illegal presence after the notice of termination, the letter explains, they might be declared forever inadmissible after they leave. Employment authorization also terminated.
Noem told the unlawfully imported “migrants” that they should use U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s CBP Home app to report their departure.
The usual far-left subversive lawyers sued on behalf of the “migrants,” and a U.S. District Court judge in Massachusetts — Indira Talwani, the daughter of an Indian immigrant and appointed by President Barack Hussein Obama — stayed Noem’s order. A panel of the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Talwani’s order. On May 5, the administration appealed, arguing that parole terminations are not subject to judicial review, and that the Immigration and Nationality Act “deprives the district court of jurisdiction.”
This morning, SCOTUS ruled for Trump, staying Talwani’s order
pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought.
Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor joining.
Jackson — the first justice in history not to know what a woman is — wrote that the majority “plainly botched this assessment today.” Why? Because it
undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.
Parole Program History
As Noem’s parole termination notice explained, the Biden administration claimed that paroling illegals into the country — notably by using the CBP One mobile smartphone application created by U.S. Customs and Border Protection — would slow the number of “migrants” pouring across the southwest border.
Biden imported some 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans between October 19, 2022 and January 22, 2025, Noem explained. She said Biden’s rationale for the program was “enhancing border security” at the southwest frontier.
“DHS reasoned that by ‘incentivizing individuals to seek a lawful, orderly means of traveling to the United States, while imposing consequences to irregular migration … the new parole process will mitigate anticipated future surges’ of illegal immigration,” Noem wrote.
It didn’t work. Tens of thousands of “migrants” continued marching for the southwest border, where CBP “processed” and released them. Some of them committed rapes and murders, notably those of Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray.
Indeed, one of them, as we reported yesterday, is charged with killing of rising Air Force Academy cadet Ava Moore. Moore was 18 years old.
Importing Criminals
Frighteningly, Biden didn’t just parole the “migrants.” He flew them directly into the country.
Among them are Haitian criminals Mackendy Darbouze, Cory Alvarez, and Akim Marc Desire.
Darbouze, 26, is charged in the murder of an elderly woman and two small children in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Alvarez and Desire are charged with sex crimes in Massachusetts. Alvarez is accused of raping a 15-year-old disabled girl in Rockland. Desire is accused of molesting a 10-year-old boy in Mansfield.
Today’s ruling on Biden’s unlawful CHNV program means the administration can begin deporting them en masse. It follows a similar determination on May 19, when SCOTUS stayed a ruling from another lower-court Obama judge that blocked Trump from revoking TPS for nearly 350,000 Venezuelans imported by Biden.
In that order, Noem ended TPS for 348,202 of the 600,000 Venezuelans to whom her predecessor, unindicted visa fraudster Alejandro Mayorkas, had granted it. Supposedly, it was “unsafe” for them to return home. That raised the obvious observation that the country was unsafe because of at least some of the Venezuelans who received TPS.
Noem declared that Venezuela was no longer unsafe.
