Washington, May 20 -- The US Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to proceed with ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 350,000 Venezuelan migrants, while legal proceedings over the decision continue.
The court granted the administration's emergency request to lift a lower court order that had blocked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's termination of TPS protections, originally extended under the tenure of former President Joe Biden, reports CBS News.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented and said she would have denied the administration's bid for emergency relief.
Launched in 1990, TPS is a humanitarian programme created by the US Congress to grant temporary legal status to migrants from countries affecte...