A major, and controversial, Supreme Court ruling handed down Friday will affect more than 500,000 immigrants who currently live in the U.S. legally, including thousands in New York City. Fordham Law Professor Jennifer Gordon was interviewed by ABC7 Eyewitness News to discuss what this means for those under humanitarian parole.
When they arrived, those migrants were granted temporary legal protection by the Biden administration, known as Humanitarian Parole, which allowed them to settle here and find work. All had local sponsorship.
“The people in this program have been given status by the U.S. government,” said Jennifer Gordon, a professor at Fordham University School of Law. “And so, in the current administration’s drive to create fear, to deport as many people as possible, they’re now taking status away from people who have it in order to be able to deport them.”
