The Supreme Court on Friday found President Donald Trump’s administration was right to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.
The justices issued an emergency order, which will last as long as the court case continues, putting on hold a lower-court ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco that claimed the administration had wrongly ended temporary protected status for the Venezuelans.
Trump’s administration has moved to withdraw various privileges that have allowed immigrants to remain in the United States, including ending TPS for a total of 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians who were granted those rights under President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
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TPS is granted in 18-month increments.
In May, the Supreme Court reversed a preliminary order from Chen that
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