Supreme Court Gives Trump Admin
In a significant ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to proceed with its plan to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 300,000 Venezuelan migrants. The decision was delivered by an 8-1 majority.
The court lifted an injunction from a lower court, which had previously blocked the termination of the program. This enables the administration to move forward with the removal of the affected individuals.
U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer argued successfully that the lower court had overstepped its authority. He maintained that TPS decisions involve sensitive, discretionary judgments tied to foreign policy, which belong to the executive branch.
The Department of Homeland Security, under Secretary Kristi Noem, had revoked the protected status in February. The agency contended that conditions in Venezuela no longer warranted the designation and that extending it was contrary to the national interest.
This action reverses extensions that were previously put in place under the Biden administration. Those protections had been scheduled to remain in effect until at least January 2025.
The sole dissenting voice was Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The ruling represents a major policy victory for the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.
The decision overturns the earlier block by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, who had criticized the portrayal of migrants as criminal and suggested it was racially motivated. The Supreme Court’s ruling concludes this legal challenge.
