Trump asks Supreme Court to end deportation protections for Venezuelans in the US [View all]

Source: CNN Politics

Updated 4:52 PM EDT, Thu May 1, 2025


CNN — President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to unwind deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans that have been temporarily left in place by a lower federal court.

At issue is a decision earlier this year by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to end a form of humanitarian relief known as temporary protected status for Venezuelan migrants. A group of Venezuelan nationals covered under those protections challenged the decision as a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, which mandates specific procedures for federal agencies when implementing policy changes. They also argued that Noem’s decision was motivated by racial and political bias.

A federal district court in California temporarily blocked that decision from taking effect in late March, preventing the removal of the protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelan nationals.

In mid-April, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals declined a request from the Trump administration to block that order.

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