The Supreme Court on Friday gave the Trump administration the go-ahead to scrap temporary deportation protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.
In their latest emergency order, the justices on the high court paused Obama-appointed District Judge Edward Chen’s September ruling that the Trump administration wrongly terminated an 18-month extension of temporary protected status (TPS) for migrants from Venezuela.
Liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson opposed the majority in the unsigned order.
“Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties’ legal arguments and relative harms generally have not,” the court wrote.
“The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here,” the opinion continued, referring to an earlier ruling from the high court that lifted a March stay Chen had issued in the case.
Since the 1990s, the TPS program has granted humanitarian relief to the migrants from several disaster-plagued countries.
The federal program allows migrants to enjoy temporary legal status in the US and obtain work permits.
The Trump administration has sought to withdraw various legal protections for migrants from several nations granted under former President Joe Biden.
In her dissent, Jackson argued that “TPS statute plainly states” the designation for Venezuelan migrants shall remain effective until the expiration of its ‘most recent previous extension,’” which, before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem terminated the extension, would have been October 2026. --->READ MORE HERE
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On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily agreed that President Trump can revoke the temporary protected status (TPS) of more than 300,000 Venezuelan nationals residing in America. TPS was granted to these individuals by the Biden administration.
In its order, the high court granted a request from the administration to place a temporary stay on a lower court order that attempted to prevent the government from undertaking the aforementioned policy. The ruling appeared to be along ideological lines, with Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting from the granting of stay.
As noted by the majority, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California initially issued a preliminary injunction barring the administration from revoking TPS status for the foreign nationals in question in March. That order was paused by SCOTUS while the government appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which rejected the motion.
The district court ultimately “entered final judgment” in the case last month, siding against the administration.
As described by SCOTUS, the district court deemed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s move to revoke TPS as “unlawful,” and set “aside the Secretary’s actions effectuating her decision — namely, her vacatur of a pending extension of TPS for Venezuelan nationals, and her termination of that status itself.” The lower court additionally “concluded that the Secretary unlawfully vacated a TPS extension for Haitian nationals,” however, the administration’s application for stay to the Supreme Court only “seeks to stay the portions of the District Court’s judgment pertaining to Venezuela, but not Haiti.” --->READ MORE HERE
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