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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries

FILE - A 9-year-old girl with Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, who was born in Venezuela, but who fluently speaks only English and is in the gifted program at her school, watches TV in her family's apartment, April 5, 2025, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File) FILE - A 9-year-old girl with Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, who was born in Venezuela, but who fluently speaks only English and is in the gifted program at her school, watches TV in her family's apartment, April 5, 2025, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST / Associated Press May 9, 2025 3 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to end humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from four countries, setting them up for potential deportation.

The emergency appeal asks the justices to halt a lower-court order keeping in place temporary legal status for more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

The Republican administration argues that the decision wrongly intrudes on the Department of Homeland Security’s authority.

“The district court has nullified one of the administration’s most consequential immigration policy decisions,” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote.

The order from U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston blocked the Trump administration from putting an early end to the migrants’ temporary legal status. Her ruling in mid-April came shortly before their permits were due to be canceled, opening them up to removal from the country.