The United States Supreme Court has granted a request from the Donald Trump Administration to eliminate a program that has allowed 532,000 people from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela to live and work in the United States, a measure that was put in place during Joe Biden’s time in the White House.
Trump’s determination against these groups of Latinos, contrasts with the reception of a group of white South Africans (mostly Afrikaners) as refugees a few weeks ago, claiming discrimination.
What will Trump do with the Supreme Court decision?
The decision of the United States Supreme Court opens the door to the expulsion of more than half a million people who were able to enter legally to live and work after applying from abroad to be part of this program, which Trump now wants to end as part of a series of measures to limit the arrival of migrants, especially Latinos.
However, the order initially encountered a block ordered by a federal judge in Massachusetts who understood that the Trump administration could not implement this type of sweeping measures without a case-by-case evaluation.
The Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, submitted a request to the Supreme Court, while still waiting for the process to continue in lower courts, as reported by CNN.
This is the second legal victory achieved by Trump in migration matters in the month of May, as the Supreme Court had already allowed in another previous decision the elimination of the protection status specifically targeted at migrants from Venezuela.
The Republican magnate has advocated since his return to the White House for limiting this type of benefits and expediting the deportations of Latino immigrants.