🔗 Share this article US Supreme Court Permits Trump to Revoke Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan Migrants The federal high court on Friday gave the green light to the executive branch under Trump to strip immigration safeguards from over 300k Venezuelan migrants. Emergency Order Issued The court members enacted an emergency order, which will stay active throughout the legal proceedings proceed, freezing a lower-court ruling that had prevented the administration from terminating protected immigration status for the Venezuelan nationals. The three liberal justices voiced disagreement. Wider Protection Revocations The Republican administration has acted to eliminate various protections that allow foreign nationals to live in America and hold jobs lawfully, including revoking TPS for a total of 600,000 Venezuelan migrants and 500,000 Haitians who were given legal status during the presidency of Joe Biden. TPS is granted in 18-month increments. Earlier Judicial Intervention In the spring, the supreme court reversed a temporary injunction that impacted a further 350,000 Venezuelan migrants whose TPS benefits lapsed earlier this year. The high court provided no explanation at the time, which is common in urgent court requests. “The parallel conclusion that we arrived at in May is fitting here,” the court stated in an unattributed ruling. Consequences for Venezuelans Some protected individuals have been dismissed from work and housing while others have been detained and deported after the court intervened the first time, lawyers for the migrants submitted to the court. Judicial Dissent “I regard today’s decision as yet another serious abuse of our interim proceedings,” one justice stated. “Because, with all due respect, I cannot tolerate our ongoing, unwarranted and harmful meddling with active legal proceedings while lives hang in the balance, I oppose.” Background on TPS Congress introduced TPS in the early nineties to stop expulsions to nations suffering from natural disasters, internal conflict or additional hazardous situations. The classification can be issued by the head of DHS. Earlier Judicial Determination The presiding justice determined that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acted “with extraordinary speed and in an unprecedented manner … for the fixed intention of accelerating the revocation of Venezuela’s TPS benefits.” In earlier dismissing the administration's interim application, another judge stated on behalf of a unified appeals court that the trial court had determined that DHS made its “decisions first and searched for a valid basis for those decisions afterward”. Courtroom Debate The government's lead attorney had asserted in the latest legal submission that the justices’ May order should also apply to the present litigation. “This case is recognized by the court and involves the more common and unsustainable phenomenon of lower courts ignoring this court’s rulings on the emergency docket,” the counsel declared. The result, he said, is that the “latest ruling, similar to the earlier ruling, stopped the vacatur and termination of TPS concerning over 300,000 aliens based on baseless claims”.