Chalk up a Supreme Court victory for Trump on Venezuelan Migrants. But legal issues remain.
The Wall Street Journal reports Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip Legal Status From Venezuelan Migrants
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from thousands of Venezuelans living in the U.S. for now, in a win for its mass deportation efforts.
The high court on Monday paused a lower-court order that blocked the Department of Homeland Security from removing those protections while litigation proceeds.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in February announced she was rescinding temporary legal protections that allowed certain Venezuelan migrants to live and work in the U.S.
A federal court in California ordered the agency to postpone ending those protections while it evaluates a challenge to the legality of the move. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously declined to overturn the lower court order, and set a hearing for July.
The Supreme Court’s short, unsigned order on Monday noted legal questions remain on whether the migrants who lost their protected status would still be authorized to work in the U.S.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only noted dissent.
Congress established the Temporary Protected Status program in the Immigration Act of 1990. It allows officials to grant temporary legal immigration status to migrants from disaster- or war-stricken countries for up to 18 months at a time. Under the program, immigrants can get work permits and other documentation to live in the U.S.
Stripping the protection would mean nearly 350,000 people would immediately lose the right to live and work in the U.S., according to the group of migrants that brought the challenge.
In a brief seeking the high court’s intervention, Solicitor General John Sauer said that Congress gave DHS broad authority to designate unsafe countries and to manage the TPS program.
Winning the Case the Right Way
Trump did not ignore the lower court rule.
Instead, Trump appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court and won.
I am still puzzled by this: The Supreme Court’s short, unsigned order on Monday noted legal questions remain on whether the migrants who lost their protected status would still be authorized to work in the U.S.
Something seems wrong.
If Congress gave DHS broad authority to designate unsafe countries, what legal question remains?
And if DHS has broad authority, then why can’t it claim every country is unsafe. There is a conflict here.
The New York Times has a better writeup.
Please consider Supreme Court Lets Trump Lift Deportation Protections for Venezuelans
The Supreme Court on Monday let the Trump administration, for now, remove protections from nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants who had been allowed to remain in the United States without risk of deportation under a program known as Temporary Protected Status.
The court’s brief order was unsigned and gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices rule on emergency applications. No vote count was listed, although Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson noted that she would have denied the administration’s request.
The justices announced they would allow the Trump administration to end the protections pending appeal of the case, potentially allowing the administration to move ahead with deportations. The justices also clarified, however, that they would preserve the ability of individual immigrants to bring legal challenges in some instances, including if the government tried to cancel their work permits.
In a separate case, the justices on Friday criticized the Trump administration for seeking to provide only a day’s warning to a different group of Venezuelan immigrants in Texas it had been trying to deport under the expansive powers of the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law. The Trump administration has accused that group of migrants of being members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua.
The Temporary Protected Status program, enacted by Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush, allows migrants from nations that have experienced national disasters, armed conflicts or other extraordinary instabilities to live and work legally in the United States.
Anyone impacted by this ruling with a work permit will bring a legal challenge.
How much time will they be given? Who decides? On what basis?
Supreme Court Rules 7-2 Against Trump on Alien Enemies Case
On May 16, I noted Supreme Court Rules 7-2 Against Trump on Alien Enemies Case
The Supreme Court gave Trump a much-deserved smack in the face today.
The Supreme Court bought some time for itself, but the interim looks like a mess.
Obviously, Trump never thinks things through before opening his mouth. This ruling is meaningless.
The US destroyed Venezuela’s economy through sanctions, all because their now dead leader made fun of Bush Jr. back in the mid 2000s. It’s past time to lift the sanctions that have destroyed their country and forced so many of them to emigrate.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/21/usa.venezuela
Bingo!
We should be building relationships instead of creating lasting enemies and destroying other economies and destabilizing their populations…
Good to see SCOTUS is still functioning, evidenced by the different holdings, which make sense. This may quell some of the cynicism.
Anyone impacted by this ruling with a work permit will bring a legal challenge.
How much time will they be given? Who decides? On what basis?
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The Mob Rules has been the legal decree on these posts on illegal aliens.
Attrition the court system and you will have zero deportations.
All that can be counted on between today and 2029, is a military presence on the borders.
In 2029, the flood of illegals resume when the next Executive beautifully does what the courts legally decree once again to’ look the other way’.
Get that eraser out boys and girls, and erase the southern border.
Meanwhile, the British Prime Minister admits on TV that the UK has a two-tier legal system, with guidelines asking for harsher punishments, selectively, on white males: https://x.com/BachelorJoker/status/1905654605494554633
Anyone care to explain?
There are pictures with young Starmer and Jimmy Savile.
Starmer gets around. https://x.com/RachelA1892/status/1923824580872831037
NYU’s decision to withhold Logan Rozos’s degree for denouncing genocide in Gaza in his graduation speech is the latest example of right-wing cancel culture. After criticizing it on the Left, conservatives have learned to rally “woke” mobs of their own.
That’s not about left/right. It’s about Israel’s power in the US.
Hence the Dumb & Dumber ‘Epstein Killed Himself’ performance by Kash and Bongino.
The illegal immigrants universally come from tropical backwaters that have been mismanaged for generations. They see the shining city on a hill (the U.S.) and their dreams are triggered massively. It’s not a surprise they’re coming in such numbers; the only surprising thing is that America hasn’t built an effective Wall by now.
they will fly into JFK or LAX
Ship them out. Then mitigate
Deport them, but allow them back by paying a fine, after which, in order to stay, they have to learn a trade, learn to speak English, and swear that Chuck Schumer is an a-hole.
Chuckles needs help grilling cheeseborgers.
More effective a process than relying on the “Phone and Pen”.
If Mish has something common with Trump, is that they’re both in a hurry to do things that require more time. But incentives have to be in place. If migrants are receiving free accommodations and food, without working, they have no reason to leave. To remove them with force will take decades. The most effective method (even without Court orders), is to cut off all accommodations, all stamps etc., and make it illegal to hire them. They’ll all leave in a few weeks. But the States won’t cooperate with something like that, so… my guess is that 90% of them will be here permanently. And then they’ll bring all their relatives here too, legally. I’ve decided to accept that the US has no borders, it’s not a country. It’s just an “economic zone” with no society. Flags and all that are just decorations.
the borders have been open for 400 years. you girls and boys who haven’t figured that out are perhaps more special needs.
This is what we get by having a greedy government. The slow stream of illegals thru the years has been a killer for many Americans. They took the high paying jobs like building , years ago. Hired by construction contractors all over this country. Lowering price of labor was deliberate. Sales jobs were only ones left.
Send them all back. Then they can “Fix” their own countries instead of living on the largesse of the USA.
The atheist emperors of the Byzantine Empire made sure to establish a common religion, common language, and common identity. The empire lasted about 1,000 years. On the other hand, all “multi-cultural” empires dissolved quite quickly (due to competing interests and mentalities). Even the USSR – dissolved quickly after Lithuania demanded more economic freedom (that was the initiation).
The USA doesn’t have many years left if this diversity thing keeps going on. Especially if certain groups keep demanding special privileges. It will dissolve, probably to 3 different new entities. Probably before 2040.
And the money for all this immigrant movement re-movement? ICE already short $2 billion as Trump’s immigration crackdown ramps up
What’s $2 billion against a $2 trillion deficit? Peanuts. Numbers don’t matter when the deficit is $2 trillion.
Have them contact Jerry Reinsdorf for a tryout.
Would these 350,000 Venezuelans be here if the U.S. didn’t meddle in Venezuela affairs including imposing crippling sanctions?
Does the Supreme Court order apply to Juan Guaido, the former CIA-sponsored “real” president of Venezuela who is now living a comfortable life in Miami?
Wait a minute, did I read this correctly….
The justices also clarified, however, that they would preserve the ability of individual immigrants to bring legal challenges in some instances, including if the government tried to cancel their work permits.
So the supreme courts wants individuals to file 350,000 lawsuits? Won’t that create a huge backlog on an already backlogged court system? Wouldn’t that take centuries to hear?
The insanity of the judicial system is reaching all new levels of crazy.
Indeed! The Mob Rules is our legal decree.
They’re here to stay. Even if you deport a cruise ship every single day (2,000 passengers), it would take 5,000 days to deport 10 million. Pretty soon they’ll be given citizenship too, and then it’s President AOC & Co. for the foreseeable future. And the more left they go, the more votes they’ll get from them and the more they’ll bring in. That’s why you see the European globalists not paying much attention to Trump and Vance.
The US had a chance of becoming an actual nation after WWII, they blew it. Over-confidence and complacency.
The only “checkmate” move Trump can make at this point, is to propose to Mexico to become the 51st State. Think about it.
I know some Venezuelans, some recently to this country, others here for 30 years. I think Venezuelans have a legit case for asylum. The ones coming here, from what I can tell, are educated and hardworking, not looking for any handouts, people any country would be fortunate to have. And they speak English and love baseball. Their being here also weakens the Venezuela government which is a plus.
I’d argue they’re a special class of refugee which is not abusing asylum….
For each educated and hard-working person that comes to our country that is one less educated and hard-working person that could turn around their birth country and turn it into something better. If all the good people come here then the home country is left as a “shit hole” forever. That is what people who support immigrants forget, including the Catholic Church, for which I am a member. The draw of our country, like when Biden opened up the border wide for four years, causes incredible harm to the countries where everyone is leaving.
I worked with four Venezuelan Engineers in 2009-10 on a US project. They were all sharp, good guys, had families and were in the process of becoming legal US citizens. They all lamented the nationalization of industry under Chavez. Good adds for us, but not so much for Venezuela.
I agree..how are they ever going to have a decent baseball team in Venezuela if everyone who likes baseball has moved to the USA. Other concerns will suffer in Venezuela too if they have a brain drain.
If these “resources” were oil, timber or minerals. we would be considered to be exploiting their natural resources.
Removing them from this temp visa class does not mean they will be deported but does make it easier for them to be deported. And those that will be deported first will be the troublemakers. Gang members and other undesirables will have less grounds to fight deportation. As for the decent folk who can demonstrate that they are productive taxpayers etc then they have an incentive to start the process of getting a permanent visa and perhaps work towards citizenship..
They might still have legal status as asylum seekers while they wait for a hearing.
Supposedly Obama deported in excess of 3 million illegal immigrants during his tenure, and yet we heard very little about it from the MSM. How was Obama able to accomplish this without little if any interference from the judicial branch?
Obama didn’t “deport” as we think of normal deportations. They characterized turning someone around at the border as a “deportation”. CBP could “deport”someone three times in three days. Redefinition of terms.
Obama’s nickname was Deporter in Chief. However it was 3 million over 8 years and includes apprehension and deportation at the border.
Round them up. Sort them out.
There are many who came here to escape from the criminals who invaded.