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The Hill
6 days ago
- Politics
- The Hill
Federal judge halts Trump admin from ending protected status for some Venezuelans
A California judge on Friday halted the Trump administration from revoking temporary protective status (TPS) for 5,000 Venezuelans. U.S. District Judge Edward E. Chen, an Obama appointee, said Friday the White House would have to uphold the TPS extension granted by former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in January. His successor, Kristi Noem, attempted to erode the protective status for Venezuelans in February by terminating a Biden-era order extending their ability to obtain updated paperwork, including work permits and other documents. 'According to Plaintiffs, Secretary Noem exceeded her statutory authority when sheeffectively canceled, on February 3, 2025, TPS-related documentation that had already beenissued based on the extension to October 2, 2026. Plaintiffs' position is meritorious. Nothing inthe TPS statute allows the Secretary to take such action,' Chen wrote in the order. Chen later wrote, 'The extension had real world consequences: it was effective, even if only for a brief period of time.' The Supreme Court previously issued an emergency order allowing the Trump administration to strip legal protections for migrants. However, their ruling does not block legal challenges contesting Noem's decision. Attorneys for the plaintiffs said her decision was racially discriminatory. The Homeland Security Secretary also ended deportation protections for Haitians earlier this year. In recent months, President Trump and his team have been named in a number of court battles initiated by plaintiffs who allege the administration has undertaken wrongful deportations and denied due process to individuals who have been removed. Throughout the campaign trail, Trump promised to carry out the largest deportation in the country's history, but the rate of removals still remains lower than the Biden administration's numbers.
The Sun
6 days ago
- Politics
- The Sun
US judge blocks Trump from invalidating 5,000 Venezuelans' legal documents
A federal judge prevented the Trump administration from invalidating work permits and other documents granting lawful status to about 5,000 Venezuelans, a subset of the nearly 350,000 whose temporary legal protections the U.S. Supreme Court last week allowed to be terminated. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco in a Friday night ruling concluded that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem likely exceeded her authority when she in February invalidated those documents while more broadly ending the temporary protected status granted to the Venezuelans. The U.S. Supreme Court on May 19 lifted an earlier order Chen issued that prevented the administration as part of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration agenda from terminating deportation protection conferred to Venezuelans under the Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, program. But the high court stated specifically it was not preventing any Venezuelans from still challenging Noem's related decision to invalidate documents they were issued pursuant to that program that allowed them to work and live in the United States. Such documents were issued after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during former Democratic President Joe Biden's final days in office extended the TPS program for the Venezuelans by 18 months to October 2026, an action Noem sought to reverse. TPS is available to people whose home country has experienced a natural disaster, armed conflict or other extraordinary event. Lawyers for several Venezuelans and the advocacy group National TPS Alliance asked Chen to recognize the documents' continuing validity, saying without them migrants could lose their jobs or be deported. Chen in siding with them said nothing in the statute authorizing the TPS program allowed Noem to invalidate the documents. Chen, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, noted the administration estimated only about 5,000 of the 350,000 Venezuelans held such documents. 'This smaller number cuts against any contention that the continued presence of these TPS holders who were granted TPS-related documents by the Secretary would be a toll on the national or local economies or a threat to national security,' Chen wrote. Homeland Security Department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin in a statement said the 'ruling delays justice and seeks to kneecap the president's constitutionally vested powers.' Chen ruled hours after the U.S. Supreme Court in a different case on Friday allowed Trump's administration to end the temporary immigration 'parole' granted to 532,000 Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants under a different Biden-era program.
The Sun
6 days ago
- Politics
- The Sun
US judge blocks Trump from invalidating 5,000 egal documents
A federal judge prevented the Trump administration from invalidating work permits and other documents granting lawful status to about 5,000 Venezuelans, a subset of the nearly 350,000 whose temporary legal protections the U.S. Supreme Court last week allowed to be terminated. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco in a Friday night ruling concluded that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem likely exceeded her authority when she in February invalidated those documents while more broadly ending the temporary protected status granted to the Venezuelans. The U.S. Supreme Court on May 19 lifted an earlier order Chen issued that prevented the administration as part of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration agenda from terminating deportation protection conferred to Venezuelans under the Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, program. But the high court stated specifically it was not preventing any Venezuelans from still challenging Noem's related decision to invalidate documents they were issued pursuant to that program that allowed them to work and live in the United States. Such documents were issued after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during former Democratic President Joe Biden's final days in office extended the TPS program for the Venezuelans by 18 months to October 2026, an action Noem sought to reverse. TPS is available to people whose home country has experienced a natural disaster, armed conflict or other extraordinary event. Lawyers for several Venezuelans and the advocacy group National TPS Alliance asked Chen to recognize the documents' continuing validity, saying without them migrants could lose their jobs or be deported. Chen in siding with them said nothing in the statute authorizing the TPS program allowed Noem to invalidate the documents. Chen, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, noted the administration estimated only about 5,000 of the 350,000 Venezuelans held such documents. 'This smaller number cuts against any contention that the continued presence of these TPS holders who were granted TPS-related documents by the Secretary would be a toll on the national or local economies or a threat to national security,' Chen wrote. Homeland Security Department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin in a statement said the 'ruling delays justice and seeks to kneecap the president's constitutionally vested powers.' Chen ruled hours after the U.S. Supreme Court in a different case on Friday allowed Trump's administration to end the temporary immigration 'parole' granted to 532,000 Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants under a different Biden-era program.
India Today
6 days ago
- Politics
- India Today
US judge blocks Trump from cancelling legal documents of 5,000 Venezuelans
A US federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from cancelling work permits and other legal documents issued to around 5,000 Venezuelans under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) a Friday night ruling, US District Judge Edward Chen said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem likely overstepped her authority when she attempted to cancel documents that had allowed the recipients to live and work legally in the United documents in question were issued during the final days of President Joe Biden's term, when the Department of Homeland Security extended TPS protections for Venezuelans by 18 months, through October 2026. Noem later reversed that extension as part of the Trump administration's broader efforts to end TPS for Venezuelans. The US Supreme Court on May 19 allowed that broader rollback to proceed but said Venezuelans could still challenge the invalidation of individual TPS-related documents. Judge Chen ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, who argued that losing their documents could lead to job loss or deportation.'There is nothing in the statute that gives the Secretary power to cancel these documents,' Chen wrote, noting that only a small fraction, about 5,000 out of 350,000 Venezuelans, hold such documents."This smaller number cuts against any contention that the continued presence of these TPS holders who were granted TPS-related documents by the Secretary would be a toll on the national or local economies or a threat to national security," Chen Security Department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin criticized the ruling, saying it 'delays justice and seeks to kneecap the president's constitutionally vested powers.'The decision came just hours after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to terminate a separate immigration 'parole' program that had granted temporary entry to more than 500,000 people from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua.(With inputs from Reuters)Must Watch
Mint
7 days ago
- Politics
- Mint
Trump admin blocked from revoking work permits for 5,000 Venezuelans
Day after over 500,000 migrants, including Venezuelans, lost their right to temporarily live and work in the United States after the Supreme Court ruling, a federal judge on Saturday, May 31, prevented the Trump administration from canceling work permits and legal documents for about 5,000 Venezuelans. US District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco said in a ruling that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem likely exceeded her authority when she invalidated those documents. On May 19, the US Supreme Court lifted an order Judge Chen had issued preventing deportation protection to Venezuelans. But the high court stated specifically it was not preventing any Venezuelans from still challenging Noem's related decision to invalidate documents they were issued pursuant to that program that allowed them to work and live in the United States. Such documents were issued after the US Department of Homeland Security in the final days of Democratic President Joe Biden's tenure extended the TPS program for the Venezuelans by 18 months to October 2026, an action Noem then moved to reverse. Also Read | Trump Administration offers $1,000 to illegal migrants who voluntarily self-deport The temporary protected status is granted to people or migrants who had experienced a natural disaster or armed conflict in their home countries. Judge Chen figured that the administration estimated only about 5,000 of the 350,000 Venezuelans held such documents. 'This smaller number cuts against any contention that the continued presence of these TPS holders who were granted TPS-related documents by the Secretary would be a toll on the national or local economies or a threat to national security,' Chen said. Just a day ago, the Supreme Court let the Trump administration immediately strip the legal right to temporarily live and work in the US from as many as half a million people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
