Supreme Court Approves Of Trump Plan To Revoke Parole for 500,000 Migrants
Charlie Kirk Staff
05/31/2025

The Supreme Court on Friday issued a stay on a lower court ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from deporting roughly 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
The decision represents a short-term victory for President Donald Trump as he pushes forward with his second-term agenda focused on tightening border security and reshaping immigration policy.
The Court’s ruling temporarily halts a lower court order that had prevented the administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for certain migrants.
TPS allows eligible individuals to live and work legally in the United States if conditions in their home countries—such as war, natural disasters, or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions”—make it unsafe to return.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, according to Fox News. Jackson criticized the decision, stating the Court “plainly botched” its assessment and failed to consider 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.”
“While it is apparent that the government seeks a stay to enable it to inflict maximum predecision damage, court-ordered stays exist to minimize — not maximize — harm to litigating parties,” she added.
Earlier this month, U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer urged the Supreme Court to allow the administration to proceed with its plan to revoke TPS, accusing U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of exceeding his authority by interfering with the executive branch’s discretion over immigration policy.
“The district court’s reasoning is untenable,” Sauer argued, adding that the program involves “particularly discretionary, sensitive, and foreign-policy-laden judgments of the Executive Branch.”
TPS is typically renewed in 18-month increments, with the most recent extensions issued under President Biden near the end of his term. However, in February, the Trump administration moved to end protections for a specific group of Venezuelan nationals. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said continuing those protections was no longer in the national interest.