The Supreme Court on Friday for a second time allowed President Donald Trump to strip temporary deportation protections from 300,000 Venezuelans, handing the administration another win in its effort to rapidly remove non-citizens from the United States.
In a brief order, and over the dissent of the court’s three liberals, a majority of the justices ruled that the administration could move forward with its plans to end a form of humanitarian relief known as Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans – a move that will make them more vulnerable to deportation.
The Trump administration asked the justices earlier this month to allow it to withdraw deportation protections that had been extended to some 300,000 Venezuelans living in the United States. The case stems from a decision earlier this year by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to end TPS for Venezuelan migrants.
The court had reached a similar outcome in the same case in May. After that decision, a district court in California entered a more permanent ruling against the Trump administration – a decision that restarted the emergency appeal process that ultimately wound its way back to the Supreme Court.
“Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties’ legal arguments and relative harms generally have not,” the court wrote in its order. “The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here.”
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