The Supreme Court has for the second time allowed US President Donald Trump to terminate temporary protection from deportation for 300,000 Venezuelan citizens.
In a brief statement, the majority of justices allowed the administration to proceed with plans to eliminate the form of humanitarian protection known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans, which will make them more vulnerable to deportation, CNN reports.
The decision was made over the dissent of the three liberal justices.
The Trump administration earlier this month asked the Supreme Court to allow it to withdraw deportation protection that had previously been granted to about 300,000 Venezuelans living in the United States.
The case stems from the decision by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, made earlier this year, to terminate TPS for Venezuelan migrants.
The Court reached a similar conclusion in May, in the same case.
Following that decision, a District Court in California ruled against the Trump administration, thereby restarting the appeals process, which eventually reached the Supreme Court again.
“While the procedural posture of the case has changed, the legal arguments and the relative harms remain largely the same. The same outcome we reached in May is appropriate in this case as well,” the Court’s order stated.
The three liberal justices expressed their disagreement with the decision, but only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a separate explanation.
Jackson criticized the manner in which the court proceeded and assessed the decision as another serious abuse of the emergency procedure.
The administration of former US President Joseph Biden introduced TPS for Venezuelans in March 2021, citing growing instability in the country, and the program was extended in 2023.
Two weeks before Trump took office, the Biden administration renewed the protection for an additional 18 months.
In his ruling earlier this year, US District Judge Edward Chen described Venezuela as “a country so beset by economic and political turmoil and danger that the State Department has warned against travel there due to a high risk of arbitrary arrests, terrorism, kidnapping, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, and poor health infrastructure.”
Chen was appointed District Judge by former US President Barack Obama.
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