The joy lasted little to the Venezuelan community. The United States Supreme Court has re -failed in favor of Donald Trump’s government and has given him green light to deport hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans. The Court has issued an emergency motion that suspends (temporary protection status), which allowed them to reside and work legally in the United States. Some 350,000 Venezuelans are at risk of deportation again. Another 250,000, who expires their permission in November, could remain in the same situation.
In one, the high court confirmed a ruling issued in May, when he had already supported the administration’s decision to put an end to the program. “Although the position of the case has changed, the legal arguments of the parties and the relative damages, in general, have not done so. The same result we reached in May is appropriate in this case,” says the Supreme, in reference to his previous ruling.
The six conservative magistrates voted in favor and the three liberal judges did it against. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissident opinion in which she criticized the Court for once again granting an emergency application filed by the Administration. “I cannot tolerate our repeated, free and harmful interference in pending cases in the lower courts while there are lives at stake, so I disagree,” he said. “Once again, we use our equitable power (but not our ability to write opinions) to allow this administration to disturb as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible,” he added.
The order of the Supreme will be in force while the litigation continues in the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit of California, which can extend months or years. While the process lasts, Venezuelans beneficiaries of TPS are exposed to deportation.
“It is a heartbreaking that the judges have approved without further the illegal cancellation of the TPS by this administration. This decision will disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries of the TPS, respectful of the law and workers, such as me. Today, I regret the separation of families, the parents who will spend hours worried about how to keep their children, the people who will remain without medical treatment, that they will lose their job They have worked, ”said Cecilia González, plaintiff and member of the TPS National Alliance.
The TPS program was created in 1990 to host migrants fleeing from their countries for wars, natural disasters or other catastrophes. With him, the beneficiaries are protected from deportation and obtain a work permit. The administration of Joe Biden appointed Venezuelans as eligible to the TPS in 2021 and 2023. Just a few days before Trump returned to the White House in January, the Democrat announced an extension of the program. The Secretary of Security, Kristi Noem, rescinded this extension and proceeded to end the designation of TPS for Venezuelans who had benefited from the program in 2023.
Judge Chen issued a precautionary suspension that stopped Noem’s intentions. “The Court considers that the secretary’s action threatens whose lives, families and means of subsistence will be seriously disturbed, it will cost billions of dollars to the economic activity of the United States and will harm public health and safety in communities throughout the country,” he argued.
In May, a decision that has reiterated this Friday. After the initial order of the Court, immigrants’ lawyers said that thousands of families were destroyed, that many Venezuelans lost their jobs, were imprisoned and “deported to a country that remains extremely insecure.”
Judge Chen had also described Venezuela as “a country so full of agitation and economic and political danger that the State Department” has warned against trips to that country “due to the high risk of unfair arrests, terrorism, kidnapping, arbitrary application of local laws, crime, civil disturbances and a poor health infrastructure.”
The lawyers of the National Alliance of TPS to the Government’s request to suspend the judgment of Judge Chen. The document of more than 50 pages argues that the Trump administration had not demonstrated any “emergency” that justified a suspension, that the public interest favored that the TPS beneficiaries maintain their status, and that two federal courts (the district and the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit of California) had ruled that the actions of the Secretary Noem were not attached to the law.
The TPS termination is part of the Trump administration anti -imparation campaign, which has left hundreds of thousands of migrants residing in the United States thanks to temporary permits such as the temporary permits such as the parole humanitarian, and that were created to receive citizens fleeing dramatic situations in their countries.
