Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelan migrants

WASHINGTON AP The Trump administration on Thursday appealed the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from Venezuelans potentially exposing them to being deported Related Articles Arrest of Tufts pupil a clear violation her rights advocacy groups say Justice Department sues Hawaii Michigan over plans to sue fossil fuel companies for circumstances harm Federal official says Oklahoma family was wrongly targeted during immigration raid Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under th-century wartime law The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order Others are expected to fall The Justice Department urged the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month A federal appeals court had earlier rejected the administration s request President Donald Trump s administration has moved aggressively to withdraw various protections that have allowed immigrants to remain in the country including ending TPS for a total of Venezuelans and Haitians TPS is granted in -month increments to people already in the U S whose countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural mishap or civil strife