In a 7-2 decision that's currently making leftists' heads explode, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to revoke the legal status of nearly half a million migrants that were paroled under a Biden administration program.
And Ketanji Brown Jackson is Big Mad about it.
Thanks to the court’s decision, roughly 500,000 paroled migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, who were granted temporary amnesty under the Biden administration's "CHNV” program, will have their temporary legal status canceled and will be required either to file for another form of legal status, return to their home country, or stay in the United States illegally and risk forced deportation by Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
First set up by the Biden administration in 2023 as part of Joe Biden's sweeping reforms granting illegal aliens multiple pathways into the country, the CHNV program enabled individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who met certain criteria - including having a U.S.-based sponsor and passing a security test - to come into the United States on a temporary, two-year visa. While here, those migrants were able to obtain tax-funded humanitarian assistance and other migrant benefits, as well as a work visa, if eligible.
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As part of President Donald Trump's campaign vow to get illegal immigration back under control, the current administration had moved earlier this year to end the program, which was a discretionary status established under an administrative order and never codified into law. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem had announced the closure of the program back in March and announced parolees had 30 days to self-deport, though that order was blocked by a federal judge the following month.
In its decision, the Supreme Court on Friday also ruled the Trump administration could revoke the legal status of about 350,000 more Venezuelan migrants who had been allowed into the country through another program.
In her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the decision will have "devastating consequences" and "precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens."
Which - and you'd think she'd know this, being a legal scholar and all - isn't her job to decide, and should have no bearing whatsoever on a SCOTUS decision. Her job, should she be bothered to do it, is to rule on the constitutionality of an executive order, law, or governmental decision. Not to opine on whether it hurts someone's feelings or interrupts their life.
If one president can unilaterally speak new immigration pathways into existence with his phone and his autopen, then the next one can cancel it.
Perhaps Jackson should trade her seat on the bench for a seat on a CNN panel.