In a significant immigration ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has permitted the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 350,000 Venezuelan migrants, removing protections that had shielded them from deportation and allowed them to work legally in the United States, BBC reported.
The decision lifts a previous injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, which had blocked the administration from ending TPS for Venezuelans. That ruling had temporarily extended protections for migrants whose status was set to expire last month.
TPS is a humanitarian program that grants temporary legal status to individuals from countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters, or other "extraordinary and temporary" conditions. Venezuela was granted TPS in 2021 in response to the country's ongoing political and economic crisis.
The Supreme Court바카라s unsigned order, issued late Monday, offered no detailed explanation for the decision바카라standard practice in emergency appeals. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole dissenter noted in the brief two-paragraph order, the BBC report showed.
The ruling represents a legal and political victory for President Donald Trump, who has sought to reshape U.S. immigration policy through executive action and has frequently turned to the Supreme Court to back those efforts.
Legal and Humanitarian Backlash
The administration had originally scheduled TPS protections for Venezuelans to end in October 2026, but moved to terminate them more than a year early, in April 2025. Government lawyers argued that the federal district court overstepped its authority by blocking that move, claiming it infringed on the executive branch바카라s control over immigration and foreign policy.
Ahilan Arulanantham, an attorney representing TPS holders, criticized the ruling as 바카라the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history.바카라
바카라That the Supreme Court authorized this action in a two-paragraph order with no reasoning is truly shocking,바카라 Arulanantham told the BBC. 바카라The humanitarian and economic impact of the Court바카라s decision will be felt immediately, and will reverberate for generations.바카라
Broader Immigration Agenda
The decision is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to roll back humanitarian immigration protections. In August, the administration is expected to revoke TPS protections for tens of thousands of Haitian nationals. It has also petitioned the Supreme Court to end humanitarian parole programs for hundreds of thousands of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants.
However, not all efforts have been successful. In a setback for the White House last week, the Supreme Court blocked an attempt to invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to expedite the deportation of migrants in north Texas. Justices questioned the legal grounds for applying the centuries-old law to the current immigration context.
Monday바카라s ruling could have profound implications for hundreds of thousands of families now facing potential deportation, and signals the Supreme Court바카라s continued central role in shaping U.S. immigration policy under the Trump administration.
