The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the go-ahead Monday to scrap temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.
The justices lifted a San Francisco judge’s March stay on a White House order ending an 18-month extension of temporary protected status (TPS) for migrants from the South American country. The San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the stay, prompting the administration’s Supreme Court petition.
The decision will allow the Administration to reverse a move made under former President Biden to extend Venezuelans’ eligibility for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which grants foreign nationals work authorization, protects them from deportation, and allows them to travel.
Eligibility for the protections was set to expire for Venezuelans in October 2026, after former Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas extended the 2023 Venezuela TPS designation.
