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Express Tribune
a day ago
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- Express Tribune
Judge blocks Trump move to invalidate work permits of 5,000 Venezuelans
Venezuelan migrants arrive after being deported from the United States, at Simon Bolivar International Airport, in Maiquetia, Venezuela April 23, 2025. Photo:REUTERS Listen to article 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 US Supreme Court last week allowed to be terminated. US 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 US 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. Judge Edward Chen is preserving TPS for a limited number of Venezuelans who received documentation on or before February 5th, when Sec. Noem formally terminated 2023 Venezuela TPS. — Armando Tonatiuh Torres-García (@GarciaReports) May 31, 2025 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 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 US 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
a day 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
a day 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
a day 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
Straits Times
2 days ago
- Politics
- Straits Times
US judge blocks Trump from invalidating 5,000 Venezuelans' legal documents
FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan migrants arrive after being deported from the United States, at Simon Bolivar International Airport, in Maiquetia, Venezuela April 23, 2025. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo 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. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
