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The Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump’s administration can begin taking steps to deport more than 500,000 immigrants who were granted emergency humanitarian protections to legally live and work in the United States.
A brief order from the nation’s highest court on Friday allows the administration to revoke temporary legal status granted to roughly 532,000 immigrants during Joe Biden’s administration.
The end of legal protections for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela follows the Supreme Court’s separate order ending those same protections for another 300,000 Venezuelans.
Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented to Friday’s order.
In her dissent, Justice Jackson warned that the court ignored the “devastating consequences of allowing the government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”
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