Posted on 05/01/2025 5:29:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.
The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month.
The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.
A federal appeals court had earlier rejected the administration’s request.
President Donald Trump’s administration has moved aggressively to withdraw various protections that have allowed immigrants to remain in the country, including ending TPS for a total of 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians. TPS is granted in 18-month increments.
The emergency appeal to the high court came the same day a federal judge in Texas ruled illegal the administration’s efforts to deport Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law. The cases are not related.
The protections had been set to expire April 7, but U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ordered a pause on those plans. He found that the expiration threatened to severely disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and could cost billions in lost economic activity.
Chen, who was appointed to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, found the government hadn’t shown any harm caused by keeping the program alive.
But Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote on behalf of the administration that Chen’s order impermissibly interferes with the administration’s power over immigration and foreign affairs.
In addition, Sauer told the justices, people affected by ending the protected status might have other legal options to try to remain in the country because the “decision to terminate TPS is not...
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let’s go Brandon
Let’s hope that SCOTUS rules in favor of getting rid of these criminals. But I don’t hold out hope for John Roberts,Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch. The latter having a feud with Republicans due to his late mother, Anne Gorsuch former EPA Administrator and the Republicans hung her out to dry during the Reagan Admin.
BTTT
This legal protections and due process is BS these are invaders from other countries that are here ILLEGALLY
They aren’t migrants.
They are illegal alien invaders who broke federal laws by entering (i.e. CRIMINALS).
Out... G E T O U T !!!
“Migrants.” Huh? Why is everyone, including The Stupid Party, afraid to use the term “illegal aliens”?
March 2020 : (Indictments against Venezuela’s Maduro regime, including changes against Maduro -— see Cartel of the Suns/Cártel de Los Soles) This approach led to a March 2020 US Department of Justice (DOJ) announcement of multiple narcoterrorism indictments against the Maduro regime, including charges against Nicolás Maduro himself.1 Two months later, the DOJ indicted a former member of Venezuela’s National Assembly, the Syrian-Venezuelan dual national Adel El Zebayar, for allegedly working with Maduro and several top regime leaders in Venezuela on a narcoterrorism conspiracy that involved dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), drug cartels in Mexico, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Syria, and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.2
May 2022 : (DOJ Indicts Syrian-Venezuelan dual national Adel El Zebayar, a former member of Venezuela’s National Assembly for involvement in a narcoterrorist conspiracy with Venezuelan leader Maduro, FARC, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, [Hamas], and Mexican drug cartels -— see Cocaine) Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “As alleged, Adel El Zabayar was part of the unholy alliance of government, military, and FARC members using violence and corruption to further their narco-terrorist aims. El Zabayar was allegedly a key part of the apparatus that conspired to export literally tons of cocaine into the U.S. We further allege today, for the first time, that the Cártel de Los Soles sought to recruit terrorists from Hizballah and Hamas to assist in planning and carrying out attacks on the U.S., and that El Zabayar was instrumental as a go-between. Allegedly, El Zabayar obtained from the Middle East a cargo planeload of military-grade weaponry....
EL ZABAYAR is a member of the Cártel de Los Soles, or “Cartel of the Suns.” The Cartel’s name refers to the sun insignias affixed to the uniforms of high-ranking Venezuelan military officials. For more than two decades, Cartel members, including EL ZABAYAR and Maduro Moros, have abused the Venezuelan people and corrupted the legitimate institutions of Venezuela – including parts of the military, intelligence apparatus, legislature, and the judiciary – to facilitate the importation of tons of cocaine into the United States...
Weird writing from the AP, which makes it sound as if Trump needs the Supremes’ blessing on this, when instead they just need to pull back the illegal lower-court actions.
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