The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Trump to revoke the temporary legal status of more than 500,000 immigrants that was granted by the Biden administration.
The high court granted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s emergency application to end former President Biden’s program that gave 532,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela permission to temporarily live and work in the U.S., NBC News reported.
Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
Jackson wrote in her dissent 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.”
The ruling was the result of the Trump administration contesting a decision by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Massachusetts, who ruled the administration could not remove each person’s status without an individualized determination.
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said in court filings that the judge did not have the authority to rule on the issue, since Noem has the authority to make her decision under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.
