The administration of President Donald Trump requested the U.S. Supreme Court’s intervention on Thursday in order to remove the temporary protected status of over 300,000 Venezuelan migrants. This action would facilitate their deportation.
Justice Department requested that the justices suspend a federal judge’s order that had halted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision to terminate the provisional legal status that had been previously granted to certain Venezuelans.
The Justice Department lawyers wrote in court papers that “Noem must permit hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals to remain in the country as long as the order is in effect,” despite her reasoned determination that doing so is “contrary to the national interest.”
On April 18, the administration’s request to suspend the judge’s order was denied by a federal appeals court.
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