Venezuelan TPS Termination Spurs Economic and Legal Fallout
Written By Lexx Thornton The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump’s administration to strip about 350,000 Venezuelans living in the United States of a temporary protected status given under his predecessor Joe Biden, as the Republican president moves to ramp up deportations as part of his hardline approach to immigration. The court granted the Justice Department’s request to lift SanFrancisco-based U.S. District Judge Edward Chen’s order that had halted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision to terminate the deportation protection conferred toVenezuelans under the temporary protected status, or TPS, program. President Donald Trump’sproposed mass deportation planscould impose significant economic costs