Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to End TPS for Venezuelan Migrants
President Donald Trump scored a major victory as the Supreme Court lifted a lower court injunction,
allowing his administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 300,000
Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. The decision was 8–1, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting.
The ruling permits the administration to proceed with plans to remove migrants, which lawyers argued the
lower court had unjustly blocked. U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer said the district court “overstepped its bounds,”
asserting the program involves “discretionary, sensitive, and foreign-policy-laden judgments” of the executive branch.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem revoked TPS in February, citing that Venezuela “no longer meets the conditions for
the 2023 designation” and that allowing migrants to stay is “contrary to the national interest.”
The decision reverses extensions granted under the Biden administration, which had maintained TPS protections through January 2025 and beyond.
Earlier, U.S. District Judge Edward Chenhad blocked Noem’s plan,
criticizing portrayals of migrants as criminal as “baseless and smacks of racism.”
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