In a huge victory that was won on Friday, October 3, the Trump Administration won a major legal victory before the Supreme Court, which vindicated its key anti-immigration move of ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, meaning that those aliens can be sent home to Venezuela instead of us having to let them remain in America.
As background, ending TPS status for the many hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of aliens from various Central and South American countries who have been allowed to remain in America for years on end is a key plank of the Trump immigration agenda, as it will allow the deportation of many hundreds of thousands of aliens against whom the MAGA base is generally implacably opposed.
However, as could be expected given the leftward drift of much of the judiciary and the tendency of rogue, activist judges to use nationwide injunctions to try and block the president’s agenda, his ending of TPS protections for various nationalities has been shut down in the district courts. His legal counterattack scored a major win in the Supreme Court on October 3.
Such is what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) triumphantly announced in a press release on the same day, saying, “On Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States granted an emergency request by the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 300,000 Venezuelan aliens in the United States.”
Later on, it put that win in the context of its other TPS program wins, noting that it has rolled back TPS protections for numerous other countries around the world, saying, “This ruling follows several other major legal victories in the Trump administration’s efforts to scale back the TPS program, including from such countries as Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal.”
In any case, very briefly explaining the specific legal victory that was won here, the statement provided, “In the 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court blocked a ruling by activist U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in the Northern District of California, who tried to pause the TPS cancellation once in March and then again in September — ultimately getting reversed by the Supreme Court twice.”
Commenting on the major win scored by Trump and DHS, one that helps vindicate his anti-immigration strategy, Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin explained, “President Trump is restoring America’s immigration system so that it actually benefits the U.S. citizen and today’s Supreme Court victory is a win for the American people and commonsense.”
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Continuing, McLaughlin added, on that same note, “The American people should not have had to go to the Supreme Court twice to see justice done. Temporary Protected Status was always supposed to be just that: Temporary. Yet, previous administrations abused, exploited, and mangled TPS into a de facto amnesty program.”
Concluding, McLaughlin said, “Meanwhile, the Biden administration allowed millions of unvetted illegal aliens into our country exacerbating the issue and endangering all Americans. Now, that it’s clear the law and the American people are on our side, Secretary Noem will continue to use every tool at our disposal to prioritize the safety of all U.S. citizens.”