Trump asks SCOTUS to strip protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants

The Trump administration on Thursday inquired the Supreme Court to override a lower court ruling and let it move forward with ending protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals in the U S The administration is asking the high court to block for now a March ruling from U S District Judge Edward Chen that delayed President Donald Trump's plans to terminate Temporary Protected Status TPS protections for selected Venezuelan nationals living in the U S Those protections would have otherwise expired in April U S Solicitor General John Sauer inquired justices on Thursday to allow the administration to proceed accusing Chen of improperly intruding on the executive branch s authority over immigration guidelines The district court s reasoning is untenable Sauer described the high court adding that the undertaking implicates particularly discretionary sensitive and foreign-policy-laden judgments of the Executive Branch regarding immigration program FEDERAL JUDGES IN NEW YORK AND TEXAS BLOCK TRUMP DEPORTATIONS AFTER SCOTUS RULING The decision to delay the Secretary s actions effectively nullifies them tying them up in the very judicial second-guessing that Congress prohibited he reported of the lower court order The district court s ill-considered preliminary injunction should be stayed At issue is the TPS operation which allows individuals to live and work in the U S legally if they cannot work safely in their home country due to a tragedy armed conflict or other extraordinary and temporary conditions Homeland Assurance Secretary Kristi Noem terminated the undertaking for Venezuelan nationals on Feb prompting the urgency lawsuit and Chen's order that postponed it from taking force The lower court judge sided with plaintiffs from the National TPS Alliance in ruling that the termination of the TPS effort which is extended in -month increments is unprecedented and suggested that the abrupt termination may have been predicated on negative stereotypes about Venezuelan immigrants something Sauer bitterly disputed in their appeal TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ASKS SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW EL SALVADOR DEPORTATION FLIGHT EPISODE Forceful condemnations of gang violence and broad questioning of the integrity of the prior administration s immigration practices including probable abuses of the TPS undertaking do not evince discriminatory intent Sauer disclosed describing Judge Chen's descriptions as cherry picked and wrongly portrayed as racially tinged A Supreme Court stay would allow the Trump administration to move forward with plans to without delay remove these expatriates which Sauer argued they should be able to do Plaintiffs have until Thursday to respond to the Supreme Court