Supreme Court Allows Trump to Proceed With Plans to Remove Temporary Legal Status for Venezuelans

The Supreme Court will allow, for now, the Trump administration to proceed with plans to strip temporary legal protected status from thousands of illegal aliens from Venezuela living in the U.S. 

The court’s decisions allow the Trump administration to move forward with plans to cancel Temporary Protected Status for illegal aliens who entered the U.S. under the Biden administration’s Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans parole program.  

The justices’ order stays a ruling from a lower court that had blocked cancelation of the program as the case continues to move forward through the courts. About 350,000 Venezuelans are living in the U.S. under the program and now stand to lose deportation protection.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly dissented, but neither Jackson nor the other justices explained the reasoning for their decisions.  

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to “Terminate all categorical parole programs,” including the “Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.” 

In March, DHS issued a notice announcing the official termination of the program on April 24, but a federal judge blocked DHS from revoking legal status for the illegal aliens in the U.S. under the parole program.

The court’s Monday decision is a win for the Trump administration after the justices ruled Friday to extend their block on the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal alien gang members from Venezuela.   

In an unsigned opinion Friday, the justices sent the case back down to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and asked the lower court to determine the procedes the illegal aliens are legally entitled to before they are removed.  

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