Suspicion and frustration about a significant policy reversal. Here's what the situation looks like based on current information:
On May 30, 2025, the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, allowed the Trump administration to proceed with terminating the CHNV humanitarian parole program, which affected approximately 532,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. NPRSCOTUSblog. The individuals had been granted temporary legal status for two years under this program, NPR.
President Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office directing the Department of Homeland Security to end all categorical parole programs, and in March 2025, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem formally terminated the CHNV program NPROPB. This represented the first mass termination of such a program on record NPROPB.
The legal dispute:
A federal district court judge in Massachusetts had initially ruled in favor of the migrants, stating that the mass termination violated the statutory requirement that parole be determined on a case-by-case basis and that the secretary erred in seeking to remove individuals who still had time remaining on their promised two-year protection NPR. However, the Supreme Court lifted that protection while the case continues in lower courts.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in dissent, criticized the majority for allowing the administration to proceed "regardless" and described the decision as "unleashing devastation," SCOTUSblog.
Your larger point about political promises:
Whether this constitutes a "bait and switch" involves questions about campaign messaging versus policy implementation. The facts show that people who entered legally under an established program now face the loss of that status. Beneficiaries had to fly to the U.S. at their own expense and have a financial sponsor to qualify for the designation GBH, meaning they followed the existing legal process.
The humanitarian impact is substantial and affects families who built lives here based on government promises of two-year protections that are now being cut short.