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The decision on Friday applies to the hundreds of thousands of people who were granted humanitarian bail under former President Joe Biden’s administration.

Due to their immediate humanitarian needs, including instability, violence, and political repression in their home countries, they were granted the right to enter the US.

However, the Supreme Court’s decision raises the possibility of deportation for those who received humanitarian parole before a final decision on whether their immigration status was revoked.

The top court’s decision reverses a lower court’s temporary ban on Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans from obtaining humanitarian parole after the ruling, which is dominated by conservatives by six to three judges.

The Supreme Court’s decision did not provide a justification. Two liberal justices, however, expressed their disagreements in front of the panel.

The outcome, according to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, “undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”

She noted that some of the people who were impacted by the court filings had stated in court documents that their humanitarian parole would be revoked.

In an effort to restrict immigration into the US, Trump has targeted programs like humanitarian parole. Trump has claimed that Biden was lax with immigration and that he oversaw the “invasion” of the US from abroad, accusing his administration of “broad abuse” in his appeal for humanitarian parole.

Trump’s administration has also indefinitely suspended asylum applications and other types of immigration relief since taking office in January.

If the defendants were forced to leave the country and were denied entry to other immigration channels, the plaintiffs in Friday’s humanitarian parole case warned the Supreme Court they could face life-threatening conditions.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs claimed that “many will face serious risks of danger, persecution, and even death” if they were deported “to the same despotic and unstable countries from which they fled.”

About 350, 000 Venezuelans living in the US were also given the option of ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which the Supreme Court granted earlier in May. TPS permits non-citizens to remain in the country while the conditions there are still unrest or instability.

The Supreme Court’s decision on TPS, like the case from Friday, gave the Trump administration the ability to continue with removals while a Trump policy dispute is being heard in lower courts.

Biden had advocated for humanitarian parole and TPS as alternatives to illegal immigration into the US.

For example, humanitarian parole granted two-year residents of the United States the right to reside and work. That time frame would be shortened by Trump’s attempts to end it.

Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba, and Haiti are all examples of serious economic and political crises that have occurred recently in these nations.

For instance, in Venezuela, critics have accused President Nicolas Maduro of detaining and disappearing political activists, and a collapse in the country of causing hyperinflation, which left many Venezuelans without the means to get the basic necessities. In recent years, millions of people have fled the nation.

Since the assassination of President Jovenal Moise in 2021, Haiti, one of the other nations, has experienced a rise in gang violence. Since then, there haven’t been any federal elections, and gangs have used violence to fill the power vacuum.

Ishaq Dar, the foreign minister of Pakistan, stated in a statement on Friday that his visit to Kabul in April had improved relations with Afghanistan. I’m pleased to announce the government of Pakistan’s decision to raise the charge d’affaires in Kabul to an ambassadorial level, he said, “to maintain this momentum.”

Amir Khan Muttaqi and Wang Yi met at a trilateral meeting in Beijing, and Dar’s announcement comes a week later.

Dar expressed hope that the decision will boost bilateral trade, boost economic cooperation, and boost cooperation in battling terrorism.

After my extremely fruitful visit to Kabul with the Pakistan delegation on April 19, 2025, relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan are on a positive note. I’m pleased to report the government of Pakistan’s decision to raise the level of its Chargé…

The Pakistani government’s claims that Kabul, which is known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, are an allies of the Afghan Taliban have long strained tensions between the two nations.

Since the Afghan Taliban’s resurrected four years ago, TTP is a distinct organization that has boosted its popularity.

Kabul did not respond to the most recent development right away. Pakistan had earlier indicated that the two countries were thinking about improving diplomatic relations.

The presence of Afghan refugees and migrants in Pakistan is another crucial factor. According to the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM), Islamabad has increased forced mass deportation, with some tens of thousands crossing the border in April to give way to an uncertain future in Afghanistan.

After Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif revealed a three-phase plan to send Afghans back to their home countries, nearly three million of them are currently facing deportation. Many of them have been there for decades as wars have plagued their country.

Although Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban currently have embassy bases in each other’s capitals, charges d’affaires, or ambassadors, are in charge.

Pakistan, China, the United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan are the only other nations to design an ambassador to Kabul.

Foreign powers have threatened to not recognize the Taliban administration until it changes its mind regarding women’s rights, but no country has done so.

According to officials and rights advocates, a suspected drone attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a hospital in southern Sudan, the most recent civilian facility targeted during the brutal civil war, claimed at least six people.

The RSF was held responsible for the attack on Friday at the Obeid International Hospital, al-Dhaman, in Obeid, the provincial capital, in North Kordofan province, by the Emergency Lawyers. According to the report, the attack claimed injured at least 15 others.

The hospital claimed that the attack caused significant damage to its main building in a statement posted on social media. The hospital’s main medical facility, which provides the region, was ordered to suspend services until further notice, according to the statement.

A second hospital in the city center was also hit by the bombardment, according to a source from Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) intelligence.

The city serves as a crucial staging point for the army’s supply to the west, where El-Fasher, the only state capital in the vast Darfur region still under the control of the army, is located.

Despite international warnings about the potential for violence in a city that serves as a major humanitarian hub for the five Darfur states, El-Fasher has been the site of attritional fighting between SAF and RSF since May 2024.

outbreak of cholera

The Health Ministry in Khartoum state on Thursday reported 942 new cholera infections and 25 deaths, a rise from 1, 177 cases and 45 deaths the day before, adding to humanitarian woes on the ground.

Aid workers claim that the fight against cholera is slipping because almost 90% of hospitals in key warzones are no longer operational.

In 12 of Sudan’s 18 states, at least 1, 700 deaths have been reported since August 2024, including at least 1,700 deaths. As a result of more than two years of fighting between the army and the RSF, Kartova has seen 7,700 cases and 185 deaths, including more than 1, 000 infections in children under five.

According to Jean-Nicolas Armstrong Dangelser, the Sudanese emergency coordinator known by its French initials MSF, “Sudan urgently needs an increase in aid to help combat the cholera outbreak, hundreds of cases per day, which has even exceeded the more than 1000 cases per day.”

Nobody has the complete picture at the moment, sadly, so Dangelser said, “This is only the tip of the iceberg.”

Fighting in the south of Ondurman’s al-Salha district, where there were pockets of cholera patients, “greatly contributed” to the spread of the disease, according to Dangelser. The al-Salha district, which is thought to be Khartoum State’s final stronghold, was under the control of the army on May 19 when it was announced.

“The returnees to Khartoum are now exacerbating the situation because of the devasted water system and lack of healthcare,” Dangelser continued. “It’s also now spreading to Darfur, where people have been displaced by fighting.”

Sudanese refugees fleeing the conflict outside of their own country, where violence and death are common. Local authorities reported that 11 Sudanese refugees and a Libyan driver were killed in a car crash in Libya’s desert on Friday.

The UN has reported that 250, 000 people have fled their homes since the RSF and SAF clashed in neighboring Libya, out of which 11 million have been forced out of their homes since April 2023.