WASHINGTON (Diya TV) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to revoke temporary legal status for more than 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, halting protections granted under President Joe Biden’s CHNV parole program.

The high court issued a brief, unsigned emergency order that put on hold a lower court ruling blocking the administration’s efforts to terminate the program. The decision affects hundreds of thousands of migrants who had been granted two-year humanitarian parole under Biden’s immigration policies. Two liberal justices, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, publicly dissented.

Justice Jackson criticized the ruling, writing that it “undervalues 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 Biden administration launched the CHNV parole program in 2022 to manage rising numbers of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. It allowed individuals from crisis-hit nations to live and work in the U.S. for two years if they passed background checks and had a U.S.-based sponsor. In 2023, the program expanded to include Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans.

Upon taking office in January, Trump signed an executive order calling for an end to the CHNV program. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), led by Secretary Kristi Noem, followed up in March by halting extensions of the parole grants. DHS argued that terminating the program would support expedited deportations and help deter illegal border crossings.

Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts had ruled in April that the government could not collectively revoke parole status without individualized determinations. Her decision blocked the administration’s blanket termination and ordered DHS to resume processing applications for work permits and immigration relief for Afghan, Latin American, and Ukrainian parolees.

The Justice Department appealed, asserting that Talwani’s ruling disrupted “critical immigration policies that are carefully calibrated to deter illegal entry.” They further argued that the lower court had interfered with immigration decisions vested in the executive branch under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer contended that Secretary Noem had clear legal authority to terminate the program. The plaintiffs, which include the Haitian Bridge Alliance and individual parole recipients, warned that revoking status without due process would render them undocumented, unemployable, and subject to immediate deportation to countries facing instability, repression, or violence.

“This is the largest such de-legalization in modern U.S. history,” said Karen Tumlin, director of the Justice Action Center, which represents some of the affected immigrants. “The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to unleash widespread chaos—not just for our clients and class members, but for their families, their workplaces, and their communities.”

Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, said the ruling would have traumatic effects on migrant families. “We have already seen the impact on children and families afraid to go to school, church, or work,” she said.

The ruling does not decide the case on its merits but allows the Trump administration to proceed with its policy while legal battles continue in lower courts. The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had previously declined to pause Judge Talwani’s decision.