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The US Supreme Court has stayed a block on the deportation of 500,000 foreign nationals who were admitted to the US under the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) temporary parole program after a lower court had blocked the efforts from the Trump administration.
According to Fox News, the decision from SCOTUS stays the lower court order to block the deportations, at least temporarily, the ruling that halted the deportations. The Trump administration can now go ahead with their plans.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented in the decision. The court decision marks a large win for the Trump, as a large part of his agenda and campaign was to push for the deportation of those who came to the US illegally under the Biden administration.
The CHNV program, or parole program, was expanded under the Biden administration to the point where the immigrants were being allowed into the US at the rate of 40,000 a month. The program, which was much more limited under previous presidents, allows for foreign nationals to come to the US for "extraordinary and temporary conditions" because of natural disaster and other emergencies.
The decision to widen the scope of the program was taken by executive action under Biden, however, US District Judge Edward Chen had ruled against the Trump administration using executive power to end the protections for those that came to the US under the program.
US Solicitor General John Sauer requested that the Trump administration to revoke the protected status of the foreign nationals under the program and said that Chen had improperly used the judiciary's authority in the lower courts.
"The district court’s reasoning is untenable," Sauer wrote, adding that the CHNV program "implicates particularly discretionary, sensitive, and foreign-policy-laden judgments of the Executive Branch regarding immigration policy."
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