WASHINGTON (AP) – Trump administration on Friday supreme court In the case of an emergency order that would allow more than 300,000 Venezuelan immigrants of legal protections to be stripped of.
The Justice Department has asked the High Court to hold back the ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco.
The Federal Court of Appeals in San Francisco refused to hold off a ruling by US District Judge Edward Chen while the case continues.
In May, the Supreme Court overturned a backup order from Chen, which affected another 350,000 Venezuelans whose protections expired in April. The High Court did not provide an explanation at the time, but this is common in emergency appeals.
Attorney General D. John Sauer in a new court filing argued that the judicial order should also apply to current cases.
“The case involves an increasingly familiar and unacceptable phenomenon of lower courts who are familiar with the courts and ignore this court’s order regarding emergency dockets,” writes Sauer.
As a result, “Like the old order, the new order stopped the TP’s vacchae and termination, which affects more than 300,000 aliens based on unworthy legal theory,” he said.
President Donald Trump’s administration has moved aggressively to withdraw various protections that allowed immigrants to stay within the country, including ending a total of 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians who were granted protections during President Joe Biden. TPS is granted in an increment of 18 months.
Congress created the TPS in 1990 to prevent deportation to countries suffering from natural disasters, civil conflicts, or other dangerous situations. The designation may be granted by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Chen discovered that the Department of Homeland Security acted “in an unprecedented hurry, in an unprecedented way… to promote the end of the TPS in Venezuela.”
In denying the administration’s emergency appeal, Judge Kim Wardlow wrote an appeal panel of three unanimous judges who determined that DHS had “first made a decision and searched for valid basis for these decisions.”
