The Supreme Court allows the White House to end the protection for 350 thousand Venezuela for now

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump government to end the temporary protected status for around 350,000 Venezuelan protected from deportation and was allowed to work in the United States.

The court approved an administrative emergency request to raise a lower court order that prohibited him to end the temporary protection of the other legal process.

In their request to the High Court, lawyers representing the government had said the US District Court for the North California district damaged “The innate strength of the executive branch for immigration and foreign affairs,” when stopping administration from ending the protection and work permit in April 2025 as opposed to the original date in October 2026.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Domestic Security refers to the court’s decision “victory for the American people and the safety of our community.”

“Biden administration exploits a parole program to allow migrants who are examined poorly to this country-from MS-13 gang members to famous terrorists and killers. Trump’s government returns integrity into our immigration system to protect our homeland and its people are safe,” they added.

Ahilan Arulanantham, who represented the TPS holder in this case, said he was sure this was “the biggest single action that disarmed immigration status groups that were not citizens in modern US history.”

“This is the biggest single action that disarmed the State Non-citizenship Immigration Status group in modern US history. That the Supreme Court endorsed this action in the order of two paragraphs without a truly surprising reason,” Arulanantham said. “The impact of humanity and economy of court decisions will soon be felt, and will echo for several generations.”

The decision left hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants who participated in the legal process of applying and then accepted TP who asked themselves whether they were in the country legally and whether they could work tomorrow.

Lawyers who represent them are equally confused. The decision of the three paragraphs of the Supreme Court does not explain why or when administration can start to return it.

That means that, for now, the question of when to start deporting Venezuelan TPS holders may be on government policies.

“I think the direct impact of this decision is unfortunately unclear, because the court is almost not in its order. Obviously, a decision reading is that 350,000 Venezuela TPS holders from Kohort 2023 have just lost their current status and work,” Arulanantham said during the news conference on Monday afternoon.

It is also possible that TPS holders have protection for several days, but the Supreme Court does not clarify, making Arulantham blow up his decision as “feeling.”

“The lack of clarity is only underlines how inadequate the Supreme Court in treating this problem. If you are going to make decisions that influence the lives of many people, at least you owe the world and to them to explain what you are doing and when the decision will apply,” he said.

A few days before leaving the office, the Biden administration announced the extension of the benefits of the TPS for 18 months for Venezuela who received status in 2023. This has created a protected status for Venezuela, in part, because the conditions in Venezuela under President Nicolás Maduro made him risk to deport the migrants there.

But three days after being confirmed in February, DDHS Secretary Kristi Noem emptied the decision.

In its lawsuit, the National TPS Alliance and seven Venezuelan citizens accused Noem’s decision to empty the extension of being motivated “at least partly by Animus Racial” against Venezuela. The lawsuit claimed that Noem had repeatedly mentioned Venezuela “land bag” and gang members during the news interview.

Today’s verdict is paused by the District Court’s order which temporarily prohibits administrative from ending the Venezuelan TPS the benefits towards the deadline applied by the Biden administration.

The decision might have a big impact on hundreds of thousands of other people. At present, the termination of DHS TPS for Haiti, Cameroon, and Afghanistan is challenged in courts throughout the country with the same argument as for Venezuela.