The Supreme Court granted President Donald Trump’s administration a stay on an order forcing it not to revoke protections given to illegal aliens through former President Joe Biden’s parole program.
Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
The majority did not elaborate on its decision, but once again, Jackson wrote a long dissent.
In April, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of the United States District Court – District of Massachusetts blocked Trump from ending the parole program, giving over 500,000 illegal aliens parole and the right to work.
The program applied to those from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld Talwani’s ruling, denying Trump a stay while it considered the case:
For present purposes it suffices to say that the Secretary [Kristi Noem] has not at this point made a “strong showing” that her categorical termination of plaintiffs’ parole is likely to be sustained on appeal. Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 434 (2009) (citation omitted). Nor has she shown that the balance of harms and the public interest weigh so heavily in her favor as to warrant a stay of the district court order pending the outcome of this appeal in the absence of a strong showing that the Secretary will prevail.
The administration immediately applied for a stay from SCOTUS, arguing that Noem has “broad discretion over categories of immigration determinations.”
The stay is in place “pending the disposition of the appeal” in the district court.
SCOTUS’s stay does not apply to Talwani’s ruling that protected Afghans and Ukrainians who enrolled in the parole program.
The stay order is different from the case SCOTUS attended to on May 19, where they voted 8-1 to lift an injunction that blocked President Donald Trump from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for some illegal aliens who arrived here through parole processes.
I wonder why Sotomayor voted yes in the first case and no in this one.
The parole program gave illegal aliens a two-year work program if they could find a “U.S.-based financial sponsor.”
Biden’s administration began the program for Venezuelans in 2022. It added Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans in 2023.
Texas and other states sued the administration, but the courts ruled the program was legal.
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