Supreme Court allows Trump admin to pull protections for 350,000 Venezuelans

• A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California had blocked the Trump administration from removing the deportation protections, but the Supreme Court overturned that decision on Monday.
• Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the request, per the court's order.
• As many as 350,000 Venezuelans are covered by the Temporary Protected Status, according to court filings.

Catch up quick: Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had extended the deportation protections for Venezuelans until 2026 in the waning days of the Biden administration.

• In its request to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration said the district court judge's nationwide stay overstepped its authority.
• "The court thus wrested control of the nation's immigration policy away from the Executive Branch," the administration said.

What they're saying: The National TPS Alliance, which is representing the Venezuelans in the federal district court case, said the immigrants covered by the protected status "cannot return safely to their country of origin."

• President Trump had ordered that deportations of Venezuelans be deferred on his last day in office during his first term. Those protections were periodically extended until the second Trump administration revoked them in February.

• DHS Secretary Krisi Noem even acknowledged in her revocation order that conditions in Venezuela had not improved since the temporary protections were first enacted, the TPS Alliance told the district court.

Editor's note: This story has been corrected to show Trump deferred deportations on the last day (not the first day) of his first term.