Supreme Court allows Trump to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans who risk deportation

On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protection from 350,000 Venezuelali, and may be deported.

The order of the court, with only one opposition, tops a federal judge in San Francisco, who maintained his temporary reserve status of Venezuelan who could have ended last month. Judges did not provide any justifications, which is common in emergency calls.

The situation allows the people already in the United States to live and work legally because their countries of origin are not safe to return due to natural disasters or civil conflict.

Ahilan Arnathham, one of the lawyers of the Venezuelan immigrants, said that the Supreme Court is “the largest unilateral work in modern American history that strives any group of non -citizens of the state of immigration.”

“This decision will force the families to be in an impossible situation either to choose to survive or choose stability,” said Cecilia Gonzalez Herrera, who filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.

“The Venezueians are not criminals,” said Gonzalez Herrera.

She said, “We all deserve the opportunity to prosper without returning to danger.”

Aruantham said that the repercussions on hundreds of thousands of affected people were not yet clear.

Mariana Moliros, her husband and daughter, left their homeland Venezuela in September 2005 after receiving death threats for their open political opposition to the socialist government. They came to the United States, hoping to find peace and protection and asked for asylum, but their request was rejected.

They have been temporarily given TPS but now they live in fear again – fear of detention and deportation to a country where they do not feel safe.

“Today we are all being imprisoned in Venezuela if the United States returns to us,” said Moliros, 44 -year -old Venezuelan lawyer and lives in Florida. “They should not deport a person at risk of assassination, torture and imprisonment.”

The Federal Appeal Court had previously refused the administration’s request to put the order to wait while the lawsuit continued. A listening session was set next week in front of the American boycott judge, Edward Chen, who temporarily stopped the management plans.

In a statement, internal security described the court’s decision as “a victory for the American people and the safety of our societies” and said that the Biden administration “took advantage of the programs to allow migrants to carry out twice as much as this country.”

“The Trump administration is restoring integrity in our immigration system to preserve our country and its people safe,” said Tricia McLeulin spokeswoman said.

This case is the latest in a series of emergency resumption that Donald Trump’s president has submitted to the Supreme Court, and many of them relate to immigration and include Venezuela. Earlier this month, the government asked the court to allow it to end the human conditional release of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, which puts them for potential deportation as well.

The Supreme Court also participated in slowing Trump’s efforts to deport the Venezuelan who are quickly accused of being members of gangs in prison in El Salvador under the Eighteenth Century law called the law of foreign enemies.

The complex economic and political crisis in Venezuela pushed more than 7.7 million people to leave the South America since 2013. The latest economic problems in Venezuela pushed inflation on an annual basis in April to 172 %. Even the last chapter prompted President Nicholas Maduro to declare an “economic emergency” last month. Maduro, who was re -elected last year to a third term, was internationally convicted as illegal, and his political opponents.

In the TPS conflict, the administration has moved strongly to the various protection that allowed migrants to stay in the country, including ending the temporary protected situation of a total of 600,000 Venezuela and 500,000 Haiti. This situation is granted for 18 months. Venezuela was first appointed to TPS in 2021; Haiti, in 2010.

Last week, the Ministry of National Security announced that TPS for Afghanistan, the first in 2022, would end in mid -July.

Venezuelan protection was appointed on April 7, but Chen found that the expiration of the authority threatened to disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and may cost billions of billions of lost economic activity.

Chen, who was appointed to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, found that the government has not shown any damage caused by keeping the program alive.

But the Attorney General d. John Sawyer wrote on behalf of the administration that a Chen is unlimited with the authority of the administration on immigration and foreign affairs.

In addition, Sauer told the judges that people affected by ending the protected situation may have other legal options to try to stay in the country because “the decision to end TPS is not equivalent to the final removal order.”

He was established in 1990 to prevent deportations to countries with natural disasters or civil conflict.

Judge Kitanji Brown Jackson said she would have refused to resume the administration in emergency situations.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

2025-05-19 22:54:00