The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to strip more than 300,000 Venezuelans living in the United States of temporary protected status, after a lower court issued a new order blocking the administration from ending the protections.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer noted in the petition filed to the high court that the justices already halted U.S. District Judge Edward Chen’s previous order blocking the end of TPS for Venezuelan migrants but that Chen issued a new order using “the same flawed legal grounds as its predecessor—the one this Court stayed.”
“The new order again displaces the Secretary’s judgment on a matter committed to her unreviewable discretion by law, again impedes important immigration enforcement policies, and again ties up the Secretary’s
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