The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump can terminate the protected status of around 500,000 immigrants from Cuba , Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela while an appeal of the president's order is still pending.

The Department of Homeland Security later Friday said that with the Supreme Court's decision, "DHS can once again start removing illegal aliens under the disastrous CHNV parole programs as the case progresses."

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson , in a scathing dissent joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor , said the majority of the Supreme Court "has plainly botched" its assessment in granting a stay of a lower court ruling that had blocked the terminations ordered by Trump on his first day back in the White House.

Until that order, the group of immigrants who

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