内容摘要：Liat Atzili talks about the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, on Kibbutz Nir Oz during an interview at her temporary home in Kiryat Gat, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. Atzili was kidnapped and held hostage for 54 days in Gaza. Her husband, Aviv, was killed and his body was taken to Gaza. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Liat Atzili talks about the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, on Kibbutz Nir Oz during an interview at her temporary home in Kiryat Gat, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. Atzili was kidnapped and held hostage for 54 days in Gaza. Her husband, Aviv, was killed and his body was taken to Gaza. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

The administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge in Boston blocked the administration’s push to end the program. The Justice Department argues that the protections for people fleeing turmoil in their home countries were always meant to be temporary, and the Department of Homeland Security has the power to revoke them without court interference.Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, said the Biden-era policies weren’t in line with immigration law. “We are confident in the legality of our actions to protect the American people and look forward to further action from the Supreme Court to vindicate us,” she said.

But Karen Tumlin, founder and director of Justice Action Center, said the decision has “effectively greenlit” deportation orders for a half-million people.“I cannot overstate how devastating this is,” she said. The court “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.”Republican President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to deport millions of people, and in office has sought to dismantle Biden administration policies that expanded paths for migrants to live legally in the U.S. In a 2024 presidential debate, Trump amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio, including those with legal status under the humanitarian parole program, were abducting and eating pets, court documents note.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent to Friday’s ruling that the effect of the high court’s order is “to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the dissent.Jackson echoed what U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani wrote in ruling that ending the legal protections early would leave people with a stark choice: flee the country or risk losing everything. Her ruling came in mid-April, shortly before permits were due to be canceled. An appeals court refused to lift it.

The Supreme Court’s order is not a final ruling, but it means the protections will not be in place while the case proceeds. It now returns to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.

Talwani, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, did allow the Trump administration to revoke parole, but on a case-by-case basis.Displaced Palestinians walk by tents at the Islamic University of Gaza compound amid the ongoing war in Gaza, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Displaced Palestinians walk by tents at the Islamic University of Gaza compound amid the ongoing war in Gaza, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Palestinians walk at the Islamic University in Gaza City, which is now a shelter for displaced Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Palestinians walk at the Islamic University in Gaza City, which is now a shelter for displaced Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)AP writer Lee Keath in Cairo contributed to this report.