Washington, May 20 -- The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to revoke legal protections for thousands of Venezuelans, The Hill reported.

In January, the Trump administration said it would move to strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans, removing protections that stop deportation due to civil unrest and dangerous conditions in a migrant's home country.

The US Justice Department filed an appeal in the top court after a San Francisco-based federal district judge put the efforts on hold, finding they "appear predicated on negative stereotypes."

Ketanji Brown Jackson, former US President Joe Biden's appointee to the court, was the only justice to note her dissent from Monday's order to lift that judg...