WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to end a program that permits hundreds of thousands of immigrants to live and work in the United States temporarily.

The emergency appeal arose from a lower-court order keeping in place temporary legal status for more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Those who were temporarily protected from deportation through the humanitarian parole program, known as CHNV, were set to lose their legal status on April 24.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani ruled last month that mass parole terminations could not happen without each case being reviewed.

The "early termination, without any case-by-case justification, of legal status for noncitizens who have complied with DHS programs and entered the country lawfully undermines the rule of law," she wrote.

Solicitor General John Sauer argued in the request for emergency relief that the judge's decision wrongly intrudes on the Department of Homeland Security's authority.

He added that ending the program early allows the federal government to remove people from the country more quickly, in line with the Trump administration’s policy goals.

It is the latest challenge to Trump's immigration agenda that has terminated several programs initiated by the previous administration.

There have been at least 220 lawsuits filed against the Trump administration since Inauguration Day, ABC News reported. Approximately 60 of the 220 cases have centered on Trump’s immigration policy.