On Friday, the Trump administration filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to stay a federal district court ruling that held Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, not Kristi Noem, acted unlawfully in revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan nationals.

In April 2025, Noem terminated the 2023 TPS designations for Venezuela, asserting that extending the program was no longer warranted and was “contrary to the national interest.”

The district court, in Northern California under Judge Edward Chen, had ruled on September 5 that the revocation of TPS for Venezuelans (along with Haitians ) was “arbitrary and capricious, and thus must be set aside under the Administrative Procedure Act .” Haiti’s TPS termination came in a separa

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