The Supreme Court has upheld, at least temporarily, the Trump Administration’s proposal to strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from 350,000 Venezuelans now living in the United States. TPS is a law enacted in 1990 which allows resident foreigners to remain in the United States if their countries of origin have suffered natural disasters of civic strife.
The program, as stated in its name, is supposed to be temporary, and those covered by it are supposed to go home when the conditions in their homelands improve. In practice, however, it has been anything but temporary, with its beneficiaries being allowed to remain indefinitely.
The Trump Administration was reacting against this abuse of TPS. But a federal district judge blocked its initial attempt to remove TPS protection from the Venezuelans. The administration then made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, which led to the Court’s decision to lift the district judge’s ruling while litigation on this case continues.
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