by WorldTribune Staff, May 19, 2025 Real World News
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Trump Administration can move forward in stripping temporary legal protections from thousands of Venezuelans living in the U.S.
U.S. Supreme Court / Wikimedia CommonsThe court’s order set aside a lower-court ruling that had blocked the Department of Homeland Security from removing the protections, which were put in place in the waning days of the Biden-Harris regime, while litigation proceeds.
The high court granted an emergency application filed by the Trump Administration. The Biden Administration extended protections for almost 350,000 Venezuelans under its federal Temporary Protected Status program.
At issue before the Supreme Court was a subsequent designation made in October 2023 and extended in January just before President Donald 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.
California-based U.S. District Judge Edward Chen blocked the move.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the Trump Administration’s emergency application that the courts could not review Noem’s decision.
“The court’s order contravenes fundamental executive branch prerogatives and indefinitely delays sensitive policy decisions in an area of immigration policy that Congress recognized must be flexible, fast-paced and discretionary,” Sauer wrote.
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