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Supreme Court ruling on TPS stuns South Florida, leaves Venezuelan families in fear

Story by Verónica Egui Brito, Sonia Osorio, Grethel Aguila, Nora Gámez Torres, Syra Ortiz Blanes
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​A U.S Supreme Court ruling that allows the Trump administration to strip deportation protections and work permits from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans — including many Miami area residents — sent shock waves through South Florida and across the Sunshine State on Monday.

“That the U.S. would terminate the protections for Venezuelans now, when nothing has improved back home, is just unbelievable,” said Betsy Diaz, a Venezuelan-American in Hialeah whose two daughters, five grandchildren and several other relatives will lose the protections.
In a two-paragraph order, the nation’s highest court on Monday granted an emergency request from the White House to roll back a lower court judge’s order that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Venezuelans. It was part of an ongoing lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco challenging the Trump administration’s February decision to revoke the protections granted to Venezuelans and other nationals from certain countries in turmoil.
The court provided no explanation for why it had lifted the lower court judge’s order, which prevented the Trump administration from removing the protections while the litigation is ongoing. The court did not address the merits of the lawsuit, which continues in the lower federal court and could ultimately keep TPS in place for the thousands of Venezuelans who were protected under a 2023 designation.

READ MORE: Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected immigration status for thousands of Venezuelans

The Trump administration has made it abundantly clear that the lower court judge’s order was the only thing in its way from ending TPS immediately for Venezuelans under the 2023 TPS designation, whose protections were set to expire in April.
Following the Supreme Court ruling, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans could now be at risk being sent back to a homeland deep in the throes of political repression and economic collapse. Many TPS holders came to the U.S. to flee life-threatening dangers in Venezuela, including government persecution.
“This administration and their cruel choices disregard any basic humanity we are seeking for,” said Cecilia González Herrera, a Venezuelan TPS holder from Kissimmee and one of the individual plaintiffs in the San Franciso case. “Returning to Venezuela is not safe at all.”

For the loved ones of TPS beneficiaries, the Supreme Court decision ignites fear of family separations and the loss of livelihoods. When it moved to revoke the TPS protections in February, the Department of Homeland Security said Venezuela had seen “notable” improvements in economy, public health and crime.
But Diaz, the Hialeah grandmother, pointed to a recent State Department travel advisory that warned Americans to not travel there because of the high risk of wrongful detention, torture, terrorism and kidnapping, as well as crime, civil unrest, and the country’s poor health infrastructure.
“And yet they’re eliminating TPS for Venezuelans?” she asked. “It doesn’t make any sense.”
Marisol Silva, 64, and her husband came to Doral in 2021 to reunite with their daughter, a journalist. She had fled Venezuela years before them because the country’s government had persecuted her because of her work. She feared facing the same fate as several of her colleagues, imprisoned for reporting on the country’s humanitarian crisis.

Silva and her husband will keep their work permits through a pending immigration process, but she’s deeply worried about losing deportation protections through TPS. Still, she holds out hope that there will be other pathways to stay.
“I still believe there will be other legal avenues for our community,” said Silva.
Another group of 300,000 Venezuelans have protections under a separate 2021 designation that is set to run out in September. The Trump administration has not yet officially eliminated the protections, but will almost certainly move to do so in the coming year.
Activists: Ruling is a death sentence

Other Venezuelan community leaders in South Florida also expressed dismay following Monday’s ruling. Even if the courts ultimately uphold TPS for Venezuela, it won’t make much of a difference for those who are deported while litigation is pending because the high court lifted the lower court judge’s order.

Adelys Ferro, a Miami-based immigration activist whose organization, the Venezuelan American Caucus, is part of the San Francisco lawsuit, told reporters on Monday it was a very difficult day for the Venezuelan community.
“The fight is not over. The fight does not stop. The fight is barely starting,” said Ferro. “This is everyone’s home. Especially those who cannot return to Venezuela under any concept.”
José Antonio Colina, founder of VEPPEX, a nonprofit of politically persecuted Venezuelans who now live in exile, told the Miami Herald the decision is “totally disastrous” and “a tragedy.” He said hundreds of thousands of people would now be at risk of being sent to a country run by a government that routinely violates human rights and tortures its citizens.
“Sending those people with TPS back to Venezuela is condemning them to death,” said Colina.

He also said that Venezuelans with TPS should consult immigration attorneys to explore ways they may have to stay in the U.S. legally. However, Colina said he worries about Venezuelans who felt secure in the U.S. and spoke out against the Nicolas Maduro regime.
“No one can ensure their safety,” he said.
Colina and other activists said the Venezuelan government could target deportees for their social media postings under a recently approved law that establishes penalties such as up to 30 years in prison and disqualification from holding public office for those who support sanctions on the country imposed by other nations.
“Nothing good awaits them,” said Helene Villalonga, president of a Doral-based human rights group, adding that returned Venezuelans would face “fierce persecution.”
South Florida officials react

From Doral, home to the largest concentration of Venezuelans in the U.S., where more than 40% of residents are Venezuelan and a third are U.S. citizens who influence local elections, only lukewarm statements have emerged from city officials in response to the Supreme Court’s decision.

Rafael Pinyero, the only Venezuelan American council member in Doral, said in a statement he received the news of the Supreme Court’s decision “with a somber heart.”
“I deeply empathize with the immense stress, fear, and uncertainty this ruling brings to many in our community,” Pinyero said. “Venezuela remains in a state of political and economic collapse. Every day, innocent people are unjustly imprisoned, tortured, and silenced for daring to stand up to a regime that continues to violate basic human rights.”

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Maureen Porras, the vice mayor of Doral, said the decision would “likely lead to more confusion” as the case continues through the courts.
“The final decision on termination is still being litigated. Venezuelans are living in limbo, enduring uncertainty and a back and forth from the different courts. I think it’s important to provide stability and keep the status quo until a final decision is made,” said Porras.

Doral’s mayor Christi Fraga called for “calm and reassurance.”
The recent response from Doral city officials to the Supreme Court decision stands in sharp contrast to their own statements made just two months earlier. In March, the same three officials warned that ending TPS would lead to an economic collapse for the city.

Read more: Venezuelans fight back against TPS termination, battling for right to stay in the U.S.

Venezuelans are a significant demographic in Florida. Over 44% of all residents of Venezuelan origin in the United States live in the state — many of them in South Florida.
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, home to the largest Venezuelan community in the U.S., said she was “heartbroken” for the families who followed the legal process and now face deportation to a brutal dictatorship.
“We continue to stand with those seeking protection from oppression and persecution,” Levine Cava said in a statement in X.

Read more: ‘It’s painful.’ Venezuelans torn over Trump as his deportation agenda disrupts lives

Federal lawmakers from South Florida also came out in support of TPS for Venezuela on Monday.
U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, a Trump supporter from Miami who has positioned herself as a champion for Venezuelans and others fleeing Latin American dictatorships, said in a statement she was “deeply disappointed” with the high court’s decision.
She also said she would ask Trump to grant another form of deportation protection, known as Deferred Enforcement Departure, or DED. She is also requesting the protections for over half-a-million beneficiaries from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haitia of a Biden-era parole program the Trump administration has also moved to end. Trump had previously granted deferred enforcement departure to some Venezuelans during his last term. At the time, he said that the Maduro government was “responsible for the worst humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere in recent memory.”

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat from Weston, home to many Venezuelans, condemned the Supreme Court ruling. Along with Salazar and others, she has co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to restore and redesignate Venezuela’s Temporary Protected Status.
“Venezuelan TPS holders fled the Maduro regime and built lives in America. They sought refuge in America from his oppression and tyranny,” said Wasserman. “This atrocious decision allows Trump to deport non-criminals back to this murderous dictator.”

Supreme Court ruling on TPS stuns South Florida, leaves Venezuelan families in fear

US Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protection for Venezuelans

Andrew Chung
Updated Mon, May 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM EDT
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Repatriation flight with migrants deported from U.S. lands, in Maiquetia

By Andrew Chung
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court let Donald Trump's administration on Monday end temporary protected status that was granted to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States by 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 a judge's order that had halted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's decision to terminate deportation protection conferred to Venezuelans under the temporary protected status, or TPS, program while the administration pursues an appeal in the case.

The program is a humanitarian designation under U.S. law for countries stricken by war, natural disaster or other catastrophes, giving recipients living in the United States deportation protection and access to work permits. The U.S. homeland security secretary can renew the designation.
Monday's brief order from the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, was unsigned, as is typical when it acts on an emergency request. Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole justice to publicly dissent.
The court left open the door to challenges by migrants if Trump's administration tries to cancel work permits or other TPS-related documents that were issued to expire in October 2026, the end of the TPS period extended by Biden. The Department of Homeland Security has said about 348,202 Venezuelans were registered under Biden's 2023 TPS designation.
Monday's action came in a legal challenge by plaintiffs including some TPS recipients and the National TPS Alliance advocacy group.

"This is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history. That the Supreme Court authorized it in a two-paragraph order with no reasoning is truly shocking," said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of a UCLA immigration law center and one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs.
Trump, who returned to the presidency in January, has pledged to deport record numbers of migrants in the United States illegally and has moved to strip certain migrants of temporary legal protections, expanding the pool of possible deportees.
The U.S. government under Biden, a Democrat, designated Venezuela for TPS in 2021 and 2023. Just days before Trump returned to office, Biden's administration announced an extension of the programs to October 2026.
Noem, a Trump appointee, rescinded the extension and moved to end the TPS designation for a subset of Venezuelans who benefited from the 2023 designation. But San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ruled in the legal challenge that Noem violated a federal law that governs the actions of federal agencies.

Chen said the administration's portrayal of the whole Venezuelan TPS population as criminals was "baseless and smacks of racism." The judge said these Venezuelans are more likely to hold bachelor's degrees and less likely to commit crimes than the general U.S. population.

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on April 18 declined the administration's request to pause the judge's order.
Justice Department lawyers told the Supreme Court that Chen had "wrested control of the nation's immigration policy" from the government's executive branch, headed by Trump, and had indefinitely delayed "sensitive policy decisions in an area of immigration policy that Congress recognized must be flexible, fast-paced, and discretionary."
The plaintiffs told the Supreme Court that terminating TPS "would strip work authorization from nearly 350,000 people living in the U.S., expose them to deportation to an unsafe country and cost billions in economic losses nationwide."

'WE'RE DEFENSELESS'
Some Venezuelan migrants who are TPS holders voiced concern on Monday after the court acted.
"We're defenseless, vulnerable," said TPS holder Maria Rodriguez, 33, who has lived in Orlando for five years with her husband and two children including a 2-year-old son born in the United States. "We left Venezuela because we couldn't make ends meet there. There was no work. ... We have no family left in Venezuela. It's a true drama."
"It doesn't surprise us but it does make us more fearful," said TPS holder Reinaldo Alvarado, 29, who migrated first to Chile before moving to Texas five years ago.

"I have TPS and, in theory, that protects me from deportation. But they are taking everyone here, so my medium-term plan is to go to Spain," Alvarado said.
Trump's administration in April also terminated TPS for thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians in the United States.
In a separate case on Friday, the Supreme Court kept in place its block on Trump's deportations of Venezuelan migrants under a 1798 law called the Alien Enemies Act that historically has been used only in wartime, faulting his administration for seeking to remove them without adequate legal process.
The administration has accused the Venezuelans targeted for deportation under that law of being members of Tren de Aragua, a criminal gang that the State Department has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
(Reporting by Andrew Chung; Additional reporting by Keren Torres in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Mariela Nava in Maracaibo, Venezuela and Tibisay Romero in Valencia, Venezuela; Editing by Will Dunham)

US Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protection for Venezuelans

Bummer: SCOTUS Allows Trump Admin To Revoke TPS For Venezuelans

By William Teach May 20, 2025 – 7:00 am

I mean, I’m not sure what all the kerfuffle was, TPS for them was going to end in June 2025, anyhow. Or was it April 2nd? Or September 10th Or 2026? Of course, what the illegal alien lovers wanted is for TPS to be extended for a fourth time, and then permanently

Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected status for thousands of Venezuelans
The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the green light Monday to revoke special legal protections for thousands of Venezuelan immigrants, which could pave the way for at least some of them to be deported.
The high court granted an emergency application filed by the administration, meaning officials can move forward with reversing a decision made at the tail end of the Biden administration to extend protections for almost 350,000 Venezuelans under the federal Temporary Protected Status program.
The brief order noted that liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the application. Litigation will now continue in lower courts.
“This is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history,” Ahilan Arulanantham, one of the lawyers representing Venezuelan plaintiffs, said in a statement.
It was “truly shocking” that the Supreme Court authorized the move without giving the case more consideration, he added.

TPS is good for 18 months. The Biden regime extended it twice, the last time on October 3rd, 2023, hence the April 2nd, 2025 date. So, really, it is over. It was not extended by the Trump admin. I do think that the Trump admin made a mistake in trying to cancel it early in February. They should have just let it expire, and started sending them home. There’s no need for any sort of “due process”. It’s over. Bye now. One would think

People accepted into the program have legal status in the United States and can get work authorization for up to 18 months, subject to extensions. Without that protection, affected people are subject to deportation via the normal legal process but can seek other avenues for remaining in the United States by, for example, claiming asylum.

The problem with all these measures is that most find ways to never leave. If they apply for asylum it will take years for the hearing to happen, and, when it is denied, they often do not leave. Then, when caught after 20 years, they say they are now Americans. Despite many not speaking the language and on all sorts of government benefits. The Trump admin needs to surge immigration judges to tackle all the claims.
Meanwhile

‘Flood the system’: US attorney unleashes new task force to crack down on blue state’s sanctuary policies
United States Attorney for the District of California Bill Essayli is taking major action to crack down on “sanctuary” policies in the Golden State.
He’s launching “Operation Guardian Angel,” which is a task force, made up of assets from ICE, HSI, DEA, FBI, ATF, and Border Patrol, to begin scanning a criminal database every single day to identify arrested illegal aliens in local jurisdictions that DOJ can charge with felony illegal-reentry.
“They’ve made it almost impossible for ICE to do their job, issue detainers and get criminal illegal immigrants out of jails. So what we’re doing instead is we’re going to start issuing warrants,” he told Fox News.

Start flooding, guys!

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Supreme Court Clears Trump to Strip 500,000 of Legal Status

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law...f-legal-status


Summary:
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.

Over two dissents, the high court cleared the Department of Homeland Security to end so-called parole programs that gave migrants from those four countries temporary legal status. The justices put on hold a federal trial court order that had blocked the cancellation while litigation went forward.

The order marks the second time in less than two weeks the justices have opened hundreds of thousands of migrants to possible deportation. It follows the court’s May 19 order letting DHS end legal protections for 350,000 Venezuelans under a different program. The decisions are bolstering Trump administration efforts to aggressively evict migrants — including some people who came to the US legally.

See also https://www.alipac.us/f9/supreme-cou...uelans-430111/

Supreme Court lets Trump resume plans for mass federal layoffs

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...fs-2025-07-08/

Summary:
July 8, 2025

WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for President Donald Trump's administration to resume its plans to carry out mass job cuts and the restructuring of agencies, elements of his campaign to downsize and reshape the federal government.

In Trump's latest victory at the top U.S. judicial body, the justices lifted San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Susan Illston's May 22 order that blocked large-scale federal layoffs called "reductions in force" affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of jobs, while litigation in the case proceeds.