Los Angeles - The U.S. Supreme Court today issued an order granting the Trump administration’s emergency request to revoke humanitarian parole for more than 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, who entered through what is collectively known as the “CHNV” program. The ruling in Svitlana Doe v. Noem means hundreds of thousands of individuals who came to the United States with permission will be left without work permits or protection from deportation. 

Please attribute the following quote on that order to Talia Inlender, deputy director at the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law. 

“Today’s one paragraph order from the Supreme Court upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who came lawfully to the United States through the CHNV parole program. For over 70 years, Republican and Democratic presidents alike have used the humanitarian parole authority to allow non-citizens to enter the U.S. for humanitarian reasons or in the public interest. The CHNV program followed this proud tradition of exercising the parole authority to welcome newcomers in need. Now, those people will have the rug pulled out from under them — separating families and sending people back to dangerous conditions in their home countries. It will also inflict deep harm to U.S. communities who have come to rely on those who came through the CHNV program, hired them, and welcomed them as neighbors. This is true despite the fact that the government has made no serious showing that it will be harmed by having its unprecedented decision to preemptively revoke all existing CHNV parole grants be vetted by the courts before its devastating consequences are unleashed. It is a dark day for CHNV parolees, their U.S.-based sponsors, and all Americans who still believe in the freedom to welcome.” 

Read a brief history of immigration parole HERE. 

Learn about CILP’s successful defense of the CHNV program in 2024 against a Texas-led challenge HERE. 

About UCLA CILP:

Founded in 2020, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law expands the law school's role as a national leader in immigration law and policy, generating innovative ideas at the intersection of immigration scholarship and practice and serving as a hub for transforming those ideas into meaningful changes in immigration policy. 

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