Overview

• The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency order on May 19, temporarily allowing the Trump administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 350,000 Venezuelans.
• The decision reverses lower court rulings, including one by Judge Edward Chen, who blocked the revocation citing procedural violations and claims of unconstitutional bias.
• Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole dissenting voice in the unsigned order, which does not address the merits of the ongoing legal challenge in the Ninth Circuit.
• Advocates argue that ending TPS will strip work authorization, expose migrants to deportation to unsafe conditions in Venezuela, and result in billions in economic losses to U.S. communities.
• The Biden administration had extended TPS for Venezuelans through 2026, citing severe political and economic crises under Nicolás Maduro’s regime, before the Trump administration’s reversal.