The Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) amnesty for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.
In an 8-1 ruling on Monday, the majority justices granted an emergency application filed by the Trump administration that requested the Court lift an order from California-based U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen that prevented the administration from revoking TPS protections for thousands of Venezuelan migrants, NBC News reported.
“The application for stay presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is granted,” the brief order said. “The March 31, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, case No. 3:25-cv-1766, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought.”
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
In a press release, the Immigration Reform Law Institute Executive Director and general counsel Dale L. Wilcox noted that the Supreme Court “has repeatedly” recognized President Donald Trump’s “inherent authority to exclude aliens.”
