The US Supreme Court has lifted a lower-court order that protected over 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela from deportation, clearing the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal status from many. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent highlighted the severe impact on these migrants, suggesting they face the grim choice of fleeing or losing everything. The ruling, while not final, signifies that protections are suspended as the legal case continues in appellate court, aligning with the administration's stance that such protections were temporary and subject to revocation without individual review.
The Supreme Court has again cleared the way on Friday for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million.
The court has also allowed the administration to revoke temporary legal status from about 350,000 Venezuelan migrants in another case.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent that the effect of the high court's order is "to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims."
Jackson echoed what US District Judge Indira Talwani wrote in ruling that ending the legal protections early would leave people with a stark choice: flee the country or risk losing everything.
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