Supreme Court Greenlights Trump Plan to Strip Venezuelan Migrants of Deportation Protections

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The Supreme Court decided to allow the Trump administration to take away 350,000 Venezuelan migrants’ Temporary Protected Status on Monday, with only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting.

The Court’s decision overrules a decision from a federal district court judge that had continued to extend the protection to the cohort in question, as well as a federal appeals court’s decision not to reverse the district court’s decision.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, “The Secretary of Homeland Security may designate a foreign country for TPS due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately,” due to “ongoing armed conflict,” “an environmental disaster,” or “other extraordinary and temporary conditions.”

The win for the Trump administration comes after the Supreme Court ruled, in a 7-2 decision, that the administration had not provided some Venezuelan migrants that it had sought to deport under the Alien Enemies Act with ample due process.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has also terminated terminated Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan.