Trump asks Supreme Court to allow end of program protecting 500K migrants from deportation
President Donald Trump is working hard to enact the entirety of his immigration agenda, and now he's seeking assistance from the U.S. Supreme Court to end a Biden-era program.
According to CBS News, the Trump administration has requested that the high court clear the way for it to end a program that allowed "more than 500,000 Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans to temporarily live and work in the United States.
Courts immediately got involved when Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced that the special program would be ended, affecting some 532,000 people from those countries.
Their temporary protected status was set to end on April 24.
Federal judges stopped it
Noem made the announcement regarding the end of the program in March, only to be held up by a federal judge who ruled that she didn't have the authority to end the Immigration and Nationality Act.
"U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled that there had to be individualized decisions to end parole," CBS noted, which immediately tied the issue up in the court system.
A federal appeals court did the Trump administration zero favors on the matter, prompting the administration to file an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court to get the ball rolling.
Counsel for the Trump administration argued why Noem does, in fact, have the authority to end the Biden-era protections.
CBS News noted:
In its request, Solicitor General D. John Sauer said that the district court did not have jurisdiction to enter its order because federal immigration law leaves parole-termination decisions to the discretion of the Homeland Security secretary. Sauer said the district court lacked the authority to "usurp the Executive Branch's control of foreign policy and immigration."
Sauer added, "In doing so, the district court engaged in the very review Congress prohibited — needlessly upending critical immigration policies that are carefully calibrated to deter illegal entry, vitiating core Executive Branch prerogatives, and undoing democratically approved policies that featured heavily in the November election."
30 days
When Noem first announced the end of the program, it was also announced that those protected by it had 30 days to self-deport.
Immigration activist groups quickly became involved, challenging the order and at least temporarily winning in court.
Countless executive actions by the Trump administration have been stopped via federal judges, which many claim are "activist" judges working against Trump's policies.
Only time will tell how the Supreme Court comes down on this particular issue.