Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin To End Protected Status For Venezuelan Migrants

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Friday to move forward with ending protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals.

U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee, found in September that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan nationals violates the law.

“Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties’ legal arguments and relative harms generally have not,” the court’s order states. “The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here.”

In May, the Supreme Court lifted another order preventing the DHS from removing TPS for Venezuelan migrants.