Press Release
Published on May 30, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump Administration’s request to stay a district court order in Svitlana Doe v. Noem, stripping the legal status and work permits of an estimated half a million people en masse who came to the U.S. through the humanitarian parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (“CHNV”). The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to take extraordinary action to block the district court’s preliminary injunction even before the First Circuit heard the case on appeal. The news comes after the Supreme Court issued a similar order in Noem v. National TPS Alliance, revoking Temporary Protected Status from an estimated 350,000 Venezuelans.
“The Supreme Court has effectively greenlit deportation orders for an estimated half a million people, the largest such de-legalization in the modern era. Today’s decision beats the record they set just two weeks ago when they allowed the termination of TPS for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the U.S.,” said Karen Tumlin, founder and director of Justice Action Center. “I cannot overstate how devastating this is: the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump Administration to unleash widespread chaos, not just for our clients and class members, but for their families, their workplaces, and their communities. While we grieve with these communities today, we remain resolved in our fight for the dignity they deserve.”
“We are outraged to see the continued attacks on the families and communities, including those who are here with lawful status through the CHNV humanitarian parole process. Once again the Trump Administration blatantly proves their disregard for the lives of those truly in need of protection by taking away their status and rendering them undocumented. We have already seen the traumatic impact on children and families afraid to even go to school, church or work, ” said Guerline Jozef, Executive Director and Founder of organizational plaintiff Haitian Bridge Alliance. “This population has done everything the federal government has asked of them and received a rescinded promise from the U.S. government in return. This will be tremendously devastating for our communities, but we are strong and resilient, and we will continue to fight for them to be treated fairly under the law.”
“Our position remains the same: the Trump Administration is acting arbitrarily and unlawfully to attempt to terminate the lawful status of half a million people en masse, and we will not stand for it,” said Anwen Hughes, Director of Legal Strategy, Refugee Programs at Human Rights First. “We are proud to be standing alongside so many courageous people, newcomers and welcomers alike, to protect the freedom to welcome. This is not over. Once again, we will see the Trump administration in court.”
On January 20, the Trump administration issued an order declaring all “categorical” humanitarian parole unlawful; while the order today affects only those with CHNV humanitarian parole, today’s news is deeply troubling for Uniting for Ukraine and Operation Allies Welcome parole recipients.
Justice Action Center and Human Rights First filed Svitlana Doe v. Noem on behalf of humanitarian parole beneficiaries and their U.S. sponsors from across the country, along with organizational plaintiff Haitian Bridge Alliance, to challenge the Trump Administration’s unprecedented decision to end crucial humanitarian parole processes. Plaintiffs are also challenging the Administration’s order to USCIS to halt all pending applications for these parole processes, as well as any other immigration applications that individuals who have already entered the United States on humanitarian parole have pending that would offer them a separate basis to live and work in the U.S.
For more than 70 years, Republican and Democratic administrations alike have established parole processes to advance important American interests, including promoting family unification, advancing urgent humanitarian interests, boosting the American economy, and enhancing migration management.
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