DHS asks Supreme Court to allow revocation of Venezuelan immigrants’ protected status

Published May 1, 2025 9:41pm ET



The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene in a case in which a lower court blocked the Department of Homeland Security from stripping some Venezuelan immigrants of their temporary protected status.

Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in an application to the high court that the decision to cancel immigrants’ temporary protected status, known as TPS, involved “particularly discretionary, sensitive, and foreign-policy-laden judgments of the Executive Branch” that the courts do not have a say over.

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