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The American Supreme Court has said that it will enable the Trump government to terminate deportation protection for around 350,000 Venezolans in the US.
The ruling raises a hold that was placed by a Californian judge who led temporarily protected status (TPS) for Venezuelans whose status would have expired last month.
With temporary protected status, people can legally live in the US and work when their home country is considered unsafe because of things such as countries that experience wars, natural disasters or other “extraordinary and temporary” conditions.
The statement is a victory for US President Donald Trump, who repeatedly tried to use the Supreme Court to make decisions about immigration policy.
The Trump administration wanted to put an end to the protection and work permits for migrants with TPS in April 2025, more than a year before they originally ended up in October 2026.
Lawyers representing the US Government argued that the Federal Court in California, the US Court for the Northern District of California, had “undermined the inherent powers of the executive over immigration and foreign affairs,” when it came across the government to end protection and work permits in April.
Ahilan Arulanantham, who represents TPS holders in the case, told the BBC that he believes that this is “the largest mere action that every group of non-citizens of immigration status has stripped in modern American history”.
“The fact that the Supreme Court has allowed this action in an order of two section without reasoning is really shocking,” said Mr. Arulanantham. “The humanitarian and economic impact of the court’s decision will be felt immediately and will return for generations.”
Because it was an appeal in an emergency, justice for the Supreme Court did not give a reasoning for the ruling.
The order of the court noticed only the different opinion of one judge, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
In August, the Trump administration is also expected to withdraw TPS protection for tens of thousands of Haitians.
The statement on Monday by the Supreme Court marks the latter in a series of decisions about immigration policy of the Supreme Court where the Trump government has left them behind to focus on.
Last week the administration asked the Supreme Court to put an end to the humanitarian conditional release for hundreds of thousands of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuela -immigrants.
Together with some of their successes, the Trump government received a blow on Friday when the High Court Trump blocked to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants in Noord -Texas.
Trump had wanted to use the age -old law to quickly deport thousands from the US, but judges of the Supreme Court wondered if the President’s action was legal.
