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Trump asks SCOTUS to let him kick 500k Legal Migrants out of the country [1]
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Date: 2025-05-08
Just when you think we’ve hit rock bottom with the rendition of Venezuelan migrants to an El Salvadorian gulag — we again find that Trump is still digging for something even lower.
On May 1, 2025, the Justice Department under President Donald Trump filed an emergency request with the U.S. Supreme Court to permit ending the temporary legal protections afforded to hundreds of thousands of migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua.
This action followed Biden's 2022 policy that granted two-year parole to Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian, and Nicaraguan migrants who met security and sponsorship requirements, with about 530,000 people paroled.
In March 2025, action was taken to cut short the parole period for approximately 400,000 migrants, aiming to accelerate their removal by placing them into the expedited deportation process.
In April, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, presiding in Boston, halted the termination of the parole program, ruling that the law mandates individualized evaluations rather than a wholesale cancellation, a decision the Justice Department criticized as an overreach into immigration policy.
The Supreme Court appeal represents the Trump administration’s continued effort to dismantle Biden-era immigration policies and could significantly affect the legal status and deportation risk of over 500,000 migrants.
So, just to point out the obvious yet again, these are not “Illegal Aliens.” They came to the country legally because of horrible conditions in their homes. Venezuela because of rampant gangs and a crazed authoritarian dictator, Cuba — also a dictator — , Haiti because of a devastating earthquake and gangs taking over the nation and Nicaragua because of — also gangs.
These people were granted humanitarian relief to save them from those situations. They entered the country legally. They were allowed in. They are not criminals — there’s not even a suggestion that any of them have done anything wrong. And Trump wants to kick them all out — en masse.
Not because they done anything wrong. They haven’t even been accused of writing a saucy Op Ed. They just have to leave because they’re from the wrong place. Even though all the problems they are escaping are still in place, even though it would be the definition of “Inhumane” to send them back there.
Trump’s doing it anyway.
There’s really only one word for this. There’s only one way to describe anyone behaving in this manner against a large group of completely innocent people.
RACISM.
Fucking Racism.
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