Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelan migrants

WASHINGTON – The Trump medication connected Thursday asked the Supreme Court to portion impermanent ineligible protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, perchance exposing them to being deported.

The Justice Department asked the precocious tribunal to enactment connected clasp a ruling from a national justice successful San Francisco that kept successful spot Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would person different expired past month.

A national appeals tribunal had earlier rejected the administration’s request.

President Donald Trump’s medication has moved aggressively to retreat assorted protections that person allowed immigrants to stay successful the country, including ending TPS for a full of 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians. TPS is granted successful 18-month increments to radical already successful the U.S. whose countries are deemed unsafe for instrumentality owed to earthy catastrophe oregon civilian strife.

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