Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava expressed her concern on Friday, May 30, over the Supreme Court’s ruling against the humanitarian parole program for migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti.
“I am deeply saddened by the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the decision to cancel humanitarian parole,” she wrote on social media.
Levine Cava warned that the measure affects more than half a million people, including numerous families in Miami-Dade who have turned to legal avenues to flee persecution and start a new life in the United States.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday in favor of the Donald Trump administration withdrawing the temporary legal protection granted by the Biden administration to 532,000 migrants.
The US Supreme Court granted the Department of Homeland Security’s emergency request for relief with seven justices in favor and two against: liberals Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The Trump administration was seeking to challenge a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts—which remains vacant for now. The ruling held that the government could not overrule humanitarian parole.
Humanitarian parole allowed migrants to live and work temporarily in the United States, without analyzing the procedure on a case-by-case basis.
The court decision is the Supreme Court’s first ruling this year in this area, after 10 days ago it authorized Trump to withdraw Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from nearly 350,000 Venezuelan migrants.
