Supreme Court lets Trump administration end temporary legal protections for 300,000 Venezuelans

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Source: CBS News

Updated on: October 3, 2025 / 4:57 PM EDT


Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.

The high court agreed to freeze a lower court decision that found the Department of Homeland Security illegally terminated the Temporary Protected Status program for Venezuelan migrants, which allowed them to live and work in the U.S. without the threat of immediate deportation. By halting the September ruling from U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with rolling back the legal protections for Venezuelans.

This is the second time the high court has green-lit the Department of Homeland Security's move to strip hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans of their temporary legal protections. "Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties' legal arguments and relative harms generally have not," the Supreme Court said in an unsigned order. "The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here."

Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor said they would have denied the Trump administration's request for emergency relief, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. "We once again use our equitable power (but not our opinion-writing capacity) to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible. I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket," Jackson wrote in a dissenting opinion.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-temporary-protected-status-venezuelans/

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Link to RULING (PDF) - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a326_3ebh.pdf

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[Justice Brandeis]

1. Sorry, Doral!

I'm obviously against this, but maybe Doral, Florida will make better choices next time.

They got what they voted for.

Don't expect me to march in the streets in protest. It's not my problem.

[OrlandoDem2]

2. They like their machismo gaucho leaders in Doral. Oh well.

If they voted for Trump they get what they voted for (for their Venezuelan friends). If they voted for Harris then I’m truly sorry.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Sadly, I didn't expect to go any other way.

Of course, the decision was 6 - 3. The six can go to hell for cruelty and the deaths of of any of these people.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Supreme Court has six Nazis on it

[johnnyfins]

5. The dirty six should start wearing red robes

See the movie Valkyrie...

[Clouds Passing]

6. With giant As for adulterers to the Constitution

[bluestarone]

7. Truth be known is that these 6 NAZI's would and WILL allow

MILLIONS of 5th avenue MURDERS!!

[Gimpyknee]

8. Fuck this SC and their emergency docket, or shadow rulings.

Under eight years of Obama’s administration there were eight such rulings. Under nine months of Trump’s second term there have been 23. Fuck these Trump enablers in the SC. If democrats have learned nothing else they should know that they must pack this court when and if they return to power. As Trump likes to boast, this should be a day one action.