SCOTUS Hands Down Massive 8-1 Immigration Ruling

In a landmark immigration decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to terminate the controversial deportation protections granted to hundreds of thousands of migrants by the Biden administration under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.

The high court granted an emergency application from the Trump administration, effectively allowing the Department of Homeland Security to reverse Biden-era orders that shielded foreign nationals—many of whom had been flown directly into the United States—from deportation. Biden’s unilateral expansion of TPS gave migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and other countries fast-tracked work permits and an expedited path to permanent residency.

In other words, Biden was importing future Democrat voters by the planeload—under the guise of “humanitarian relief.”

The program, known as CHNV (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela), was pitched as a way to relieve pressure at the southern border by allowing would-be border crossers to apply for “legal” entry from abroad. But as border encounters have plummeted to record lows under President Trump without such programs, it’s clear the CHNV parole scheme wasn’t about controlling immigration—it was about manipulating it.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter in Monday’s order. Even the Court’s other two liberal justices joined the five constitutional conservatives in siding with the Trump administration, showing just how legally flimsy Biden’s backdoor amnesty really was.

This ruling is a big win for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who earlier this year moved to terminate the program, citing national security and the need to reassert executive control over immigration policy. Her order was immediately blocked by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, a California-based activist judge who laughably claimed the decision was “racially motivated.”

But as Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued, the judge’s order ignored the fact that immigration policy must be “flexible, fast-paced, and discretionary.” The Supreme Court agreed.

Now, the path is cleared for the Trump administration to start deporting thousands of migrants who were unlawfully granted protection by Biden’s DHS. The ruling also restores presidential authority over immigration, reinforcing that no president—especially not a lame duck like Joe Biden—can unilaterally rewrite immigration law for political gain.

Bottom line: The Supreme Court just handed Trump another massive win in his battle to restore law, order, and sovereignty to America’s broken immigration system.