The Supreme Court on Monday said it would allow the Trump administration to revoke the Temporary Protected Status program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.

According to NBC News, the high court granted an emergency application filed by the administration.

The ruling allows the administration to reverse the Biden administration’s extension of the program for approximately 350,000 Venezuelan migrants.

BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Trump administration to revoke special protections for Venezuelan immigrants. https://t.co/cP9qzRQOOH

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Per NBC News:

The brief order noted that liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the application. Litigation will now continue in lower courts.

As a result of political instability in Venezuela, the Biden administration in March 2021 said Venezuelans were eligible for temporary protected status under the federal program that has existed since 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to people from countries reeling from war, natural disasters, or other catastrophes.

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People accepted into the program have legal status in the United States and can get work authorization for up to 18 months, subject to extensions.

At issue before the Supreme Court was a subsequent designation made in October 2023 and extended in January just before Trump took office. It is set to expire in October 2026.

In February, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sought to unwind those determinations, meaning the protections would expire this year instead.

A judge in the Northern District of California blocked the move, citing concerns that the decision was based in part on racial animus.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the administration’s emergency application that the courts could not review Noem’s decision.

Supreme Court lets Trump end protected status for Venezuelan migrants. The ruling marked a win for President Donald Trump's efforts to ramp up deportations. https://t.co/tinid1Aw36

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CBS News reports:

During the Biden administration, then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas designated Venezuela for the Temporary Protected Status program, citing “extraordinary and temporary” conditions that prevented Venezuelans in the U.S. from returning to their home country. Mayorkas extended the designation, set to last 18 months, in October 2023.

In addition to designating Venezuela for TPS, the Biden administration also created or expanded programs for Afghanistan, Cameroon, Haiti and Ukraine. The Venezuelan program is the largest and covers roughly 600,000 people through two separate designations, though only the designation from 2023 is at issue in the case before the Supreme Court.

After Mr. Trump took office for his second term, Noem vacated the extension for more than 350,000 Venezuelans, finding that it was “contrary to the national interest” to continue the program. The termination was set to take effect April 7. The Trump administration is also revoking TPS protections for tens of thousands of Haitians, with that move set to take effect in August.