U.S. Supreme Court allows Trump administration to revoke legal status for half a million immigrants

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration permission to revoke the legal status of over 500,000 immigrants from Latin American countries.
This decision was announced on Friday through a court document.
Previously, the Trump administration in March had announced plans to terminate the legal status of immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
This residency status had been granted to these individuals during Joe Biden’s presidency.
The ruling from the Supreme Court was issued without specific signatures, and the legal rationale was not formally detailed.
However, Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor opposed the decision, warning of its “devastating consequences.” They stated that this ruling could destroy the lives of approximately half a million non-citizens whose applications are still under review.
Earlier, at the beginning of his presidency, Trump had directed the Department of Homeland Security to revoke all programs known as “group conditional pardons,” which protected immigrants from deportation and occasionally allowed them to work legally.
Affected immigrants had previously filed a lawsuit against this decision in federal court in Massachusetts. Although the ruling was initially suspended, after being referred to the Supreme Court, the request for suspension was rejected and the government’s decision was upheld.