In a seismic ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has handed President Donald Trump a major victory, greenlighting his administration’s bid to strip Temporary Protected Status from approximately 350,000 Venezuelan illegal aliens.

The decision, issued Monday, lifts a lower court injunction that had blocked Trump’s order to terminate Biden-era protections, paving the way for mass deportations as part of his hardline immigration agenda.

With only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting, the court’s unsigned order marks a pivotal moment in Trump’s second-term immigration crackdown.

The TPS program, established in 1990, shields migrants from countries facing war, natural disasters, or other crises, granting them legal status and work permits.

In 2021 and 2023, the Biden administration designated Venezuela for TPS, citing political instability and humanitarian crises.

These protections, extended to October 2026 just before Trump’s inauguration, allowed nearly 350,000 Venezuelans to live and work legally in the U.S.

But in February, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem moved to revoke these designations, arguing they were not in the national interest—a decision that would have ended protections by April 2025.

U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee, had temporarily halted Noem’s termination in March, ruling that it was “unprecedented” and possibly "predicated on negative stereotypes" about Venezuelans.

Chen argued that Venezuelan TPS holders are "more likely to hold bachelor’s degrees and less likely to commit crimes than the general U.S. population."

He warned the termination could disrupt lives and cost billions in economic activity, siding with plaintiffs from the National TPS Alliance, an illegal alien advocacy group formed and led by TPS beneficiaries from across the United States.

The Trump administration, represented by Solicitor General John Sauer, fiercely contested Chen’s ruling.

Sauer argued before the Supreme Court that the lower court "wrested control of the nation’s immigration policy" from the executive branch, undermining Trump’s authority to make "discretionary, sensitive, and foreign-policy-laden judgments."

He dismissed Chen’s claims of bias as "cherry-picked" and "wrongly portrayed" as "racially tinged," asserting that "forceful condemnations of gang violence and broad questioning of the integrity of the prior administration’s immigration practices, including potential abuses of the TPS program, do not evince discriminatory intent."

The Supreme Court’s decision to lift Chen’s injunction allows the administration to proceed with ending TPS for Venezuelans, though the court left open the possibility for migrants to challenge the cancellation of work permits or other TPS-related documents set to expire in October 2026.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her sole dissent, stated she "would have denied the application" for emergency relief, signaling her belief that the lower court’s protections should have remained in place.

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin hails the ruling as a "win for the American people and the safety of our communities," vowing that "the Trump administration is re-instituting integrity into our immigration system to keep our homeland and its people safe."

Democrats, predictably, decried the decision as catastrophic.

Wasserman Schultz, representing a district with a significant Venezuelan population, took to social media to denounce the ruling as “atrocious.”

"Venezuelan TPS holders fled the Maduro regime and built lives in America. This atrocious decision allows Trump to deport non-criminals back to a murderous dictator," she stated, warning, "This fight is NOT over. We must pass my Venezuela TPS Act to keep our community safe."

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-WA, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, issued a scathing statement, calling the decision "shameful."

Jayapal blasted the Trump administration for "pulling the rug out from so many Venezuelans who came into the country lawfully, fleeing untold violence and devastation in their home country."

Ahilan Arulanantham, a lawyer for Venezuelan plaintiffs, called the SCOTUS ruling "the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history," lamenting that the court authorized it “in a two-paragraph order with no reasoning” as "truly shocking."

A 2023 study cited by Judge Chen suggested Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries commit crimes at lower rates than the U.S. population, with many holding advanced degrees. However, the Trump administration has spotlighted violent crimes linked to Venezuelan nationals, particularly alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang, designated a foreign terrorist organization by Trump in March 2025.

Notable cases include a Venezuelan migrant charged in 2024 with the murder of a New York woman, whose body was found in a hotel room, and another accused of a triple homicide in Ohio, including two children, after entering via Biden’s parole program.

The Biden crew let in a tidal wave of migrants—hundreds of thousands, many with no business in our country—and now Trump’s cleaning up the mess.

Since taking office in January 2025, President Trump has unleashed a barrage of measures to curb illegal immigration:

• Revocation of TPS: Beyond Venezuelans, Trump terminated TPS for thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians in April 2025, affecting over 400,000 migrants total.
• Alien Enemies Act: Trump invoked the 1798 law to deport alleged Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, though the Supreme Court blocked rapid deportations on May 16, 2025, citing due process violations.
• Parole Program Terminations: Trump moved to end Biden’s CHNV program, which allowed over 532,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela into the U.S., with a pending Supreme Court case on its legality.
• Border Enforcement: ICE has ramped up detentions, transferring thousands to facilities like the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Texas, with deportations up 30% from 2024 per CBP data.
• Self-Deportation Orders: Trump issued warnings to parole program migrants to self-deport or face arrest, targeting over 1 million entrants under Biden’s “legal” pathways.

The Supreme Court just told the radical left and their open-border cronies to take a hike. President Trump is doing what he was elected to do: putting America first, protecting our communities, and kicking out those who shouldn’t be here.