Noem Asks Supreme Court to Allow Lifting of Migrant Protections

The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court for clearance to end legal protections that let 350,000 Venezuelans temporarily live and work in the country without risk of deportation.

In an emergency application filed Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said a federal district judge in San Francisco overstepped his authority when he blocked her from ending the Venezuelans’ so-called Temporary Protected Status. Noem canceled a TPS extension that the Biden administration had put in place before leaving office.

Kristi Noem

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The district judge’s order “impermissibly intrudes on an area of executive branch operations that Congress left to the executive branch’s discretion, in a manner that stymies the operation of a time-sensitive program,” the administration argued.

The TPS program is designed to protect immigrants whose home countries are in crisis.

The administration asked the Supreme Court to get involved after a San Francisco-based federal appeals court refused.

The emergency filing marks the 11th time the administration has turned to the high court in President Donald Trump’s campaign to remake the federal government through a barrage of executive orders and other unilateral White House actions.

The case is Noem v. National TPS Alliance, 24A1059.

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