BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Trump to strip deportation protections from some Venezuelans in 8-1 ruling

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From the Associated Press: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation.

The court’s order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month. The justices provided no rationale, which is common in emergency appeals.

The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.

A federal appeals court had earlier rejected the administration’s request to put the order on hold while the lawsuit continues.

The protection status for the Venezuelans was supposed to expire on April 7, but U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee, had ordered a pause on those plans, claiming that allowing the migrants to be deported would “severely disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and could cost billions in lost economic activity.”

Now the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Trump administration, clearing the way for the group to be deported.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter.

Law professor Jonathan Turley weighed in on the ruling:

The Supreme Court delivered a win for the Administration today by lifting the injunction on the move to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for hundreds of thousands of people allowed into the country by Biden from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela…

…A California district judge had blocked the move and the Ninth Circuit refused to lift the injunction. It will now go back to the Ninth Circuit for the resolution of the merits. Only Justice Jackson dissented in the order today… https://documentcloud.org/documents/25948079-24a1059-order/

…Notably, while the statute states that this special status could be assigned on a “case-by-case” basis, the Biden Administration unlawfully adopted a wholesale policy granting temporary parole to hundreds of thousands of individuals from four countries — Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (“CHNV”) …

…Yet, the district court would have required case-by-case determinations to end the status. The law however barred review of these determinations:
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law (statutory or nonstatutory)… no court shall have jurisdiction to review … any other decision or action of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security the authority for which is specified under this title to be in the discretion of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security, other than the granting of relief under section 208(a). [8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) (emphasis added).]”

…The administration was open about its desire to remove these individuals before they accrued over two years of continuous presence, as that would trigger a longer removal process.

…The language underlying this special status is highly deferential to the government. The status as parolees is temporary and can be terminated, in the view of the Administration…

…These paroles brought this challenge in one of the most liberal circuits in the country and could still prevail before the Ninth Circuit. It would then be back to the Supreme Court for a review of the merits if the writ is granted.

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