Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected immigration status for thousands of Venezuelans

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status for up to 600,000 Venezuelan immigrants, meaning some could ultimately be deported. The court granted an emergency request filed by the Trump administration seeking to block a judge's ruling that said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem failed to follow the correct process in revoking Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans. ADVERTISING The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, in May granted an earlier emergency request filed by the Trump administration in the same case. The latest filing came after California-based U.S. District Judge Edward Chen on Sept. 5 again ruled against the administration, this time in the form of a final decision rather than a preliminary one. "Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties’ legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here," the unsigned court order said. The court's three liberal justices dissented. One of them, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, wrote a dissenting opinion criticizing the court for once again granting an emergency request filed by the Trump administration, as it has done in 20 other cases. "I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent," she wrote. The Trump administration has argued that Chen's latest ruling was effectively in defiance of the earlier Supreme Court decision. Lower courts had rejected that argument, noting that the high court had not offered an explanation for its earlier emergency ruling. "We can only guess as to the court’s rationale when it provides none," a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals noted. The National TPS Alliance and individual Venezuelans challenged the Trump administration’s decision to revoke the protections. For more information, visit us at https://www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com/.