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THE GREAT BETRAYAL:
Supreme Court’s Ratification
of Trump’s Termination of
CHNV Parole
BY CYRUS MEHTA & CHNV parole programs, individuals who entered the nation or support for the facing each parolee whose
may apply for any immi- United States pursuant to the conclusion that the CHNV parole is being truncated.”
KAITLYN BOX*
gration benefit or status for United for Ukraine program, programs were addressing DHS appealed to the
which they may be eligible, or the Family Reunification relevant humanitarian con- First Circuit, which declined
n March 25, 2025, including discretionary em- Parole process. cerns through something oth- to overturn the stay, and
DHS terminated pa-
DHS’ termination of
Orole programs that ployment authorization un- these parole programs was er than case-by-case determi- ultimately to the Supreme
nations. The FRN also gave Court.
der the [8 CFR 274a.12(c)
had allowed an estimated (11)] employment eligibility quickly challenged through no rationale for its conclu- On May 30, 2025, the
530,000 Cubans, Haitians, category…” However, on litigation. See Svitlana Doe, sion that such humanitarian Supreme Court issued an ab-
Nicaraguans, and Venezue- February 14, 2025 USCIS et al., v. Noem, et. al., No. concerns no longer justified breviated order blocking the
lans to enter the United States implemented an administra- 25-cv-10495 (D. Mass. Apr. the existing parole programs district court’s stay. This or-
legally in 2022 and 2023. The tive hold on processing of all 14, 2025). On April 14, 2025, and offered no reasons for der in effect allows DHS’ ter-
federal register notice stated applications for benefits filed the United States District categorically revoking pa- mination of the parole pro-
that “Paroled aliens, includ- by CHNV parolees, as well as Court for the District of role despite the humani- grams to continue even while
ing those paroled under the
Massachusetts temporar- tarian concerns previously the First Circuit makes a
ily stayed the early ter- articulated by DHS. Finally, decision on the merits of the
mination of the CHNV despite asserting that “DHS case. In her dissent, joined by
parole programs, as well believes that consideration Justice Sotomayor, Justice
as EADs issued in con- of any urgent humanitarian Ketanji Brown Jackson ar-
nection with these pro- reasons for granting parole is gued that the Court’s order
grams. The district court best addressed on a case-by- “undervalues the devastating
held that Plaintiffs were case basis consistent with the consequences of allowing the
likely to succeed in their statute, and taking into con- Government to precipitously
claims that DHS’ termi- sideration each alien’s spe- upend the lives and liveli-
nation of the program cific circumstances,” 90 Fed. hoods of nearly half a million
was arbitrary and capri- Reg. at 13612, the FRN pro- noncitizens while their legal
cious, reasoning that the vides for no individual case- claims are pending…While it
Federal Register Notice by-case determination as to is apparent that the Govern-
“gave no expla- the humanitarian concerns ment seeks a stay to enable
m of
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