The Trump administration seized the Supreme Court to revoke the legal status of more than 530,000 migrants

The administration of Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday, May 8, to authorize him to revoke the legal status of 532,000 Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Haitians.

This request is linked to the decision of a Federal judge of Boston (North West) who suspended, on April 14, the cancellation by the Trump administration of a special program instituted under the Democratic predecessor of Donald Trump, Joe Biden, authorizing the nationals of these four nationalities to be resided in the United States for two years due to the situation of human rights in their respective countries.

This regime has enabled some 532,000 migrants to enter the country. Without the suspension pronounced by the decision judge taken by the Minister of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, to end it, they would have lost their right to stay in the United States on April 24.

The magistrate considered that the Trump administration had interpreted the law in an erroneous manner by applying an accelerated expulsion procedure targeting foreigners who illegally entered the country but not those who are legally there under government programs.

“One of the most important decisions in immigration”

The Trump administration therefore asks the Supreme Court, the majority of conservative, to lift the suspension pronounced by this federal judge, accusing him of having “Canceled one of the government’s most important decisions on immigration policy”. She also accuses him “To encroach on the prerogatives of the executive power in the management of the immigration system”.

President Donald Trump erected the fight against illegal immigration in absolute priority, evoking a « invasion » United States by “Criminals from abroad” And communicating abundantly on the expulsions of immigrants. But his massive expulsion program has been thwarted or slowed down by multiple court decisions.