The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan migrants while legal proceedings on the subject continue.
The revoked status allows migrants to potentially be deported.
“The application for stay presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is granted,” the order says, noting that a case on the matter is in the appeal process.
“Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court,” the order adds.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the Trump administration’s request, the document says.
In March, U.S. District Court Judge Ed Chen blocked the Trump administration from revoking TPS. “The Court finds that the Secretary’s action threatens to: inflict irreparable harm on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives, families, and livelihoods will be severely disrupted, cost the United States billions in economic activity, and injure public health and safety in communities throughout the United States,” Chen wrote. “At the same time, the government has failed to identify any real countervailing harm in continuing TPS for Venezuelan beneficiaries. Plaintiffs have also shown they will likely succeed in demonstrating that the actions taken by the Secretary are unauthorized by law, arbitrary and capricious, and motivated by unconstitutional animus.”
Earlier this month, President Trump’s administration petitioned the Supreme Court to revoke TPS for an estimated 350,000 Venezuelan nationals. The Justice Department’s emergency appeal challenges a federal judge’s ruling that extended TPS protections.
The Supreme Court’s decision comes as it recently ruled 7-2 against the administration’s attempt to expedite deportations of Venezuelan nationals under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
