Ending the program may upend the lives of migrants who settled across the country — from Florida to California — and embedded themselves into U.S. communities.

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to terminate, for now, a Biden-era program that allowed about 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to live and work in the United States while their immigration cases proceed. The Trump administration has maintained that the migrants pose a public safety threat, and in a statement celebrating Friday’s high court decision, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said ending the programs would be “a return to America First.”

But immigration advocates say the decision upends the lives of migrants who have settled across the country — from Florida to Illinois — and embedded themselves into American communities after fleeing crises, while economists warn that removing the migrants may harm the economies where they live and work, spanning industries such as hospitality, health care and construction.

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“This is the first time that an administration has come in and pulled the rug out from under people,” said Talia Inlender, deputy director at the UCLA School of Law’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy. “Today’s Supreme Court decision will upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who came lawfully to the U.S. through the CHNV program.”