The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Trump administration may seek to deport nearly 350,000 Venezuelans who were granted \u201ctemporary protected status\u201d under the Biden administration to live and work in the United States.<\/p>\n
In a brief order, the justices granted a fast-track appeal from Trump\u2019s lawyers and set aside the decision of a federal judge in San Francisco who had blocked the repeal announced by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson voted to deny the appeal.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s lawyers said the law gave the Biden administration the discretion to grant temporary protection to Venezuelans, but also gave the new administration the same discretion to end it. The court\u2019s decision does not involve the several hundred Venezuelans who were held in Texas and targeted for speedy deportation to El Salvador because they were alleged to be gang members. The justices blocked their deportation until they were offered a hearing.<\/p>\n
But it will end the legal protection for an estimated 350,000 Venezuelans who arrived by 2023 and could not return home because of the \u201csevere humanitarian\u201d crisis created by the government of Nicolas Maduro. An additional 250,000 Venezuelans who arrived by 2021 remain protected until September. \u201cThis is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history,\u201d said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, and a counsel for plaintiffs. \u201cThat the Supreme Court authorized it in a two-paragraph order with no reasoning is truly shocking. The humanitarian and economic impact of the Court\u2019s decision will be felt immediately, and will reverberate for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ruling affected one of two special authorities used by the Biden administration that face possible repeal now. Last week, Trump\u2019s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to also revoke the special \u201cgrant of parole\u201d that allowed 532,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to legally enter the United States on personally financed flights. A judge in Boston blocked Noem\u2019s repeal of the parole authority.<\/p>\n
The Biden administration granted the TPS under a 1990 law. It said the U.S. may extend relief to immigrants who cannot return home because of an armed conflict, natural disaster or other \u201cextraordinary and temporary conditions.\u201d Shortly before leaving office, Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden\u2019s Homeland Security secretary, extended the TPS for the Venezuelans for 18 months. While nationals from 17 countries qualify for TPS, the largest number from any country are Venezuelans.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration moved quickly to reverse course. \u201cAs its name suggests,\u201d TPS provides \u201ctemporary \u2014 not permanent \u2014 relief to aliens who cannot safely return to their homes,\u201d Solicitor Gen. D. John Sauer wrote in his appeal last week. Shortly after she was confirmed, Noem said the special protection for the Venezuelans was \u201ccontrary to the national interest.\u201d She referred to them as \u201cdirtbags.\u201d In a TV interview, she also claimed that \u201cVenezuela purposely emptied out their prisons, emptied out their mental health facilities and sent them to the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ACLU Foundations of Northern and Southern California and the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law filed suit in San Francisco. Their lawyers argued the conditions in Venezuela remain extremely dangerous. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen agreed and blocked Noem\u2019s repeal order from taking effect nationwide. He said the \u201cunprecedented action of vacating existing TPS\u201d was a \u201cstep never taken by any administration.\u201d He ruled Noem\u2019s order was \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because it did not offer a reasoned explanation for the change in regulations. It was also \u201cmotivated by unconstitutional animus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The judge also found that tens of thousands of American children could be separated from their parents if the adults\u2019 temporary protected status were repealed. When the 9th Circuit Court refused to lift the judge\u2019s temporary order, the solicitor general appealed to the Supreme Court on May 1.<\/p>\n
Last week, the State Department reissued an \u201cextreme danger\u201d travel advisory for Venezuela, urging Americans to leave the country immediately or to \u201cprepare a will and designate appropriate insurance beneficiaries and\/or power of attorney.\u201d \u201cDo not travel to or remain in Venezuela due to the high risk of wrongful detention, torture in detention, terrorism, kidnapping, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, and poor health infrastructure,\u201d the advisory states.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s lawyers downplayed the impact of a ruling lifting TPS. They told the justices that none of the plaintiffs is facing immediate deportation. Each of them \u201cwill have the ability to challenge on an individual basis whether removal is proper \u2014 or seek to stay, withhold or otherwise obtain relief from any order of removal \u2014 through ordinary\u201d immigration courts, Sauer said.<\/p>\n
Arulanantham said the effect will be substantial. Many of the beneficiaries have no other protection from deportation. Some have pending applications, such as for asylum. But immigration authorities have begun detaining those with pending asylum claims. Others, who entered within the last two years, could be subject to expedited deportation. Economic harm would be felt even more immediately, Arulanantham said. Once work permits provided through TPS are invalidated, employers would be forced to let workers go. That means families would be unable to pay rent or feed their children, and economic losses would be felt in communities across the country.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling to allow the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for nearly 350,000 Venezuelans will have significant humanitarian and economic impacts. The decision reflects the ongoing debate and challenges surrounding immigration policies in the United States, particularly for those fleeing dire conditions in their home countries.<\/p>\n
A: Temporary Protected Status is a temporary immigration status provided to eligible nationals of designated countries who are present in the United States. It is granted due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately.<\/p>\n
A: TPS was granted to Venezuelans due to the severe humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, which made it unsafe for them to return.<\/p>\n
A: Approximately 350,000 Venezuelans who arrived by 2023 are affected by the decision, with an additional 250,000 who arrived by 2021 remaining protected until September.<\/p>\n
A: The potential consequences include deportation, separation of families, loss of employment, and economic hardship for the affected individuals and their communities.<\/p>\n
A: Yes, individuals can challenge their deportation on an individual basis through ordinary immigration courts or seek other forms of relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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