The Supreme Court delivered a major victory to President Donald Trump in an 8–1 decision lifting a lower court injunction that had blocked his administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of migrants. The ruling allows the administration to terminate Biden-era protections for about 300,000 Venezuelan nationals living in the United States. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter.
The decision overturns U.S. District Judge Edward Chen’s March ruling, which halted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s plan to revoke TPS and labeled the move as racially motivated. The Supreme Court instead ruled that the district court exceeded its authority.
Solicitor General John Sauer argued that TPS decisions involve sensitive, discretionary judgments tied to foreign policy and national security, and the Court agreed. Secretary Noem had ended Venezuela’s TPS designation in a February memo, reversing extensions introduced under Alejandro Mayorkas since 2021. She concluded the protections no longer served the national interest.
The ruling marks a major shift in U.S. immigration policy and strengthens Trump’s broader push to tighten border enforcement and roll back Biden-era humanitarian measures.
