Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court to Revoke 530,000 Immigrants’ Temporary Status

Lawyers for the Trump administration submitted an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court in a bid to revoke the temporary immigration status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian, and Nicaraguan nationals living in the United States. In an emergency petition Thursday, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote on behalf of the government that the nine justices should place a hold on a federal judge’s decision that halted the government’s decision to terminate immigration parole that was granted to the Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian, and Nicaraguan individuals under the Biden administration. In their filing to the Supreme Court, Department of Justice lawyers led by Sauer argued that the lower court order had upended “critical immigration policies that are carefully calibrated to deter illegal entry,” essentially undoing “democratically approved policies that featured heavily in the November election” and allowed President Donald Trump to return to the White House....