After yet another judge sought to stop the President’s agenda, the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to revoke the Temporary Protected Status of hundreds of thousands of migrants.

From The Hill. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to end deportation protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, the administration’s latest plea for the justices to intervene in President Trump’s sweeping immigration agenda.

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The emergency application seeks to lift a San Francisco-based federal district judge’s ruling that halted the administration’s plans as a legal challenge proceeds …

“Its order upsets the judgments of the political branches, prohibiting the Executive Branch from enforcing a time-sensitive immigration policy and indefinitely extending an immigration status that Congress intended to be ‘temporary,’” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the application.

Known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the program protects from deportation those already in the country who cannot return to their home due to unrest or dangerous conditions.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “vacated” a renewal of TPS for Venezuelans shortly after taking office in January, saying she was not going to let the prior administration “tie our hands.” …

The National TPS Alliance and seven Venezuelans protected by the program are suing over the administration’s move, claiming it was motivated in part by racial animus and did not follow the proper procedure. …

U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, an appointee of former President Obama, agreed to halt the administration’s plans on March 31. The emergency appeal at the Supreme Court comes after a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to lift Chen’s order.

Chen determined the government did not follow proper procedure for stripping TPS and wrote that the administration was “motivated at least in part by animus.” …

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, ordered the plaintiffs to respond in writing by next Thursday. Kagan handles emergency appeals arising from the 9th Circuit by default, and she could act on the matter alone or refer it to the full court for a vote. …

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(Excerpt from The Hill. Photo Credit: Pacamah – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=132331248)