By Katherine Tinsley
2:49am PDT, May 21, 2025
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Donald Trump's plans to end temporary deportation protections for thousands of Venezuelan migrants were recently given the green light by the Supreme Court.
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The White House ordered the end of an 18-month extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans, but a judge in San Francisco, Calif., stopped the White House from ending the program.
Donald Trump's administration then petitioned the Supreme Court to lift the blockage.
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was nominated by Joe Biden, shared that she would've kept the district judge's initial ruling.
Biden allowed for Venezuelans to be eligible for TPS in 2021, and he approved an 18-month extension in January before ending his term. Once Donald Trump transitioned into office, the president was focused on ending many Biden-era programs and carrying out his border control initiatives.
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According to the
American Immigration Council, TPS is a federal initiative that began in the 1990s to help migrants who were coming from designated nations experiencing conflict, environmental disaster or other extreme conditions.
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In February, Kristi Noem chose to end the 18-month extension of TPS offered to Venezuelans. The protections expired on April 7.
But Noem's decision was hit with a racial bias lawsuit.
District Court Judge Edward Chen, who was appointed by Barack Obama, said that Noem's decision was "unauthorized by law, arbitrary and capricious, and motivated by unconstitutional animus."
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Judge Edward Chen asserted that removing TPS for Venezuelans would cause harm "on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives, families and livelihoods will be severely disrupted, cost the United States billions in economic activity and injure public health and safety in communities throughout the United States."
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Despite Edward Chen's analysis, U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer argued that TPS doesn't leave room for judicial intervention.
"The district court entered nationwide relief supplanting Secretary [Kristi] Noem's assessment of the national interest — an area into which a district court is uniquely unqualified to intrude," Sauer said in his petition.
