The New Yorker:

After a Supreme Court decision, hundreds of thousands of immigrants who followed the law are among the easiest to deport.

By Jack Herrera

On Friday morning, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants appeared in the United States. I’m using the term “illegal immigrants” because these people are not undocumented. They have papers. They arrived on planes, months ago, with the government’s permission. They submitted to background checks. Then the Supreme Court issued a one-paragraph decision: it would allow Donald Trump to terminate the program that had made it possible for them to be in the country. In an instant, the Court turned as many as five hundred and thirty thousand legal immigrants into—to use the brutal non-euphemism of the government—“deportable aliens.”

Those immigrants entered the United States under the C.H.N.V. Parole Program, a Biden Administration initiative that granted people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela a two-year parole, during which they could apply for some form of long-term legal status, including asylum. They were well-vetted, and they gave their biometric data to the government, yet Trump has subjected them to some of his most vicious attacks. During the second Presidential debate, when he shouted, inaccurately, about migrants “eating the dogs,” in Springfield, Ohio, he was talking largely about Haitian C.H.N.V. parolees, who, with legal work permits, had helped rejuvenate the city’s manufacturing industry.

On Saturday, I called Ruben, a university worker who came to North Carolina from Nicaragua through the C.H.N.V. program with his wife and five-year-old son. He said it was “frustrating” that Trump was targeting immigrants like them. “Practically, what I would like is for them not to view us with contempt, right?” Ruben said. “We sought the opportunity to come here in the right way.” I was struck by the phrase “the right way.” I’d heard it often from Trump voters, in the hills of Iowa, on the border of Texas, and at my own family’s Thanksgiving table. “I’m not anti-immigrant,” they said. “I just want them to come here the right way.”

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