The Supreme Court must say no.

Ending humanitarian parole for over 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela is not only cruel, it’s unconstitutional. These individuals were invited here legally, vetted, and given a promise of protection under a decades-old legal authority. They followed every rule, found sponsors, built lives, and are contributing to our economy and communities.

Now the Trump administration wants to rip all of that away overnight. Families will be torn apart. Jobs will be lost. People will be sent back to instability, violence, and poverty. This is not law and order—this is political cruelty targeting vulnerable people who sought safety through a legal pathway.

Judge Indira Talwani rightly blocked this move, calling out the administration’s misreading of the law and warning that hundreds of thousands could be forced to “flee the country” or “risk losing everything.” Her ruling should be upheld.

We urge the Supreme Court to reject this appeal. Humanitarian parole is legal. It is constitutional. And more than that—it is humane.

Lives are at stake. We cannot let politics override basic human decency.

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