Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke temporary legal status of 500,000 immigrants from 4 countries

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status granted to more than 500,000 immigrants by the Biden administration.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to revoke the temporary legal status of more than 500,000 immigrants that was granted by the Biden administration, making them subject to deportation.

The court granted an emergency application filed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that ends the Biden program that gave 532,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela permission to temporarily live and work in the United States.

The people directly affected by Friday's order may still have other avenues available to stay in the country, such as by applying for asylum, with their lawyers saying thousands have already sought to do so.

The brief order, which did not explain the court's reasoning, noted that liberal Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.

Jackson wrote that the court had failed to take into account "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."