Justices’ order puts on hold lower-court ruing that found officials had wrongly ended temporary protected status
Justices’ order puts on hold lower-court ruing that found officials had wrongly ended temporary protected status
The US supreme court on Friday allowed Donald Trump’s administration to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.
The justices issued an emergency order, which will last as long as the court case continues, putting on hold a lower-court ruling by US district judge Edward Chen in San Francisco that found the president’s administration had wrongly ended temporary protected status (TPS) for the Venezuelans. The three liberal justices dissented.
Trump’s Republican administration has moved to withdraw various protections that have allowed immigrants to remain in the US and work legally, including ending TPS for a total of 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians who were granted protection during the presidency of Joe Biden, a Democrat. TPS is granted in 18-month increments.
