Supreme Court allows Trump to withdraw 500,000 migrant rights!

Supreme Court allows Trump to withdraw 500,000 migrant rights!

The Supreme Court of the USA allowed President Donald Trump's government on May 30, 2025 to revoke the right of residence of over 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The judgment that was issued on Friday was not signed and contained no reason. Two judges, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, expressed their concerns about the "devastating consequences" of this decision for the migrants concerned in a special vote. Around 532,000 people now have to leave the country after they have come to the United States through a program of the bid administration.

The Trump administration had contacted the Supreme Court after a court blocked the lifting of the CHNV program. This program, which was introduced at the end of 2022 under President Biden, allowed up to 30,000 people from the four countries mentioned to enter the United States with a stay that was initially limited to two years. The Supreme Court initially overridden the blockade, but the legal procedure for the final clarification remains in progress. Several courts had previously stopped the rescue title and argued that the Trump government faults the US immigration law.

background of the CHNV program

The CHNV program granted around 532,000 migrants who were temporarily able to live and work in the United States, protection against deportation. These people came to the United States for "urgent humanitarian reasons or because of a considerable public benefit", which is known as "probation". The entry took place after ensuring a sponsorship agreement that enabled them to legally remain in the United States for two years.

The Trump administration, after ordering the program by the Ministry of Homeland in March, kept asking for emergency aid to the Supreme Court. A federal judge had previously stopped the decision by the Minister of Homeland Protection Minister Kristi Noem because it was not authorized to end the right of residence for all 532,000 migrants at the same time. Instead, it was necessary to make individual judgments, which the Trump administration apparently wanted to deal with.

political implications

Trump had already promised in the election campaign to take action hard against illegal immigration and is now aiming to deport millions of foreigners without papers. The abolition of the probation status facilitates the transfer of migrants to an accelerated deportation process - another step towards the restrictive immigration policy that strives for its administration.

For many migrants who had found protection through the CHNV program, the decision of the Supreme Court potentially means an uncertain future. The United States is in a complex legal dispute over immigration issues, which not only shapes the immediately affected migrants but also the public debate on immigration law and policy.

Overall, almost a million people, including an earlier decision to abolish the temporary protection status of around 350,000 Venezuelans, are potentially threatened with deportation. The legal dispute on the existing regulations is therefore pursued with very special interest, both politically and socially.