'Supreme Court sides with Trump on legal protections for over 500,000 immigrants' [View all]

(MSNBC) "The administration sought to carry out what immigrants called 'the largest mass illegalization event in modern American history.'"

"The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s bid for permission to revoke temporary legal protections for more than 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela pending further litigation, in a decision that a two-justice dissent said creates devastating consequences."

"The administration had asked the high court to halt a Massachusetts judge’s order that stopped the Department of Homeland Security from revoking a Biden-era grant of temporary relief (called 'parole') to noncitizens from those countries."

"Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. In her dissent, joined by Sotomayor, Jackson criticized the majority for letting 'the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims.' She said the court let the government 'do what it wants to do' while 'rendering constraints of law irrelevant and unleashing devastation in the process.'"

"Calling the high court’s intervention Friday 'not appropriate,' the Biden appointee said the court’s decision created “significant problems” for the migrants in this case that far exceeded any potential harm to the government. On the one hand, she said, they could choose to leave the U.S. and confront dangers in their native countries, family separation and risk forfeiting their ultimate legal claims. On the other hand, she said, they could stay in the U.S. after their parole termination and 'risk imminent removal at the hands of Government agents, along with its serious attendant consequences.'"

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-protections-immigrants-cuba-haiti-nicaragua-venezuela-rcna207148