The Supreme Court has dealt another major blow to legal challenges against the Trump administration’s effort to end Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans. On October 5, the justices vacated a Ninth Circuit ruling that had blocked the administration’s move and sent the case back to the lower court for reconsideration.

The decision could clear the way for the administration to move forward with ending protections for Venezuelans who have been allowed to remain and work legally in the United States under TPS. The case is not completely finished, but the Supreme Court’s action gives the administration a significant advantage in its effort to terminate the program.

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From Breitbart:

The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a lower court’s restriction and approved the Trump administration’s plan to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.

On October 5, the top court reversed the Ninth Circuit’s January ruling that claimed the Trump administration did not have the authority to end President Joe Biden’s TPS policy, which would allow the president to end the status of more than 500,000 Venezuelans.

SCOTUS approved the administration’s petition to reverse the lower court with a grant, vacate, and remand order reading, “Petition GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED,” the Rio Times reported.

The Supreme Court’s official docket confirms that the justices granted the government’s petition, vacated the Ninth Circuit’s judgment, and remanded the case for further consideration in light of Mullin v. Doe, the Court’s June 2026 decision.

That June ruling is central to the dispute. In Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court held that the TPS statute bars courts from reviewing nonconstitutional challenges to the Homeland Security secretary’s decisions regarding the designation, termination, or extension of TPS. The Court said the statutory language is broad and that courts cannot use ordinary administrative-law claims to second-guess those decisions.

TPS was created by Congress in 1990 as temporary humanitarian protection for people from countries facing extraordinary conditions that make returning unsafe. While the program is intended to be temporary, some TPS designations have remained in place for years.

The Biden administration extended TPS protections for Venezuelans in 2021 and again in 2023. The Trump administration subsequently moved to terminate those protections, triggering a series of lawsuits and lower-court rulings. The Supreme Court had already intervened in the broader litigation before taking up the Ninth Circuit case again this month.

The latest order does not mean every Venezuelan TPS recipient is being deported immediately. Rather, it removes the Ninth Circuit judgment that had favored the challengers and requires that court to reconsider the case under the Supreme Court’s June precedent. The outcome could nevertheless make it much harder for opponents to use nonconstitutional legal challenges to stop TPS terminations.

Let us pray that government leaders will exercise their authority with wisdom, justice, and compassion—and that immigration laws will be enforced to protect our citizens from trespassers.

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(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Flickr).