Supreme Court Gives Trump Admin Major Immigration Win

President Donald J. Trump secured a sweeping legal victory at the Supreme Court this week, as even several of the Court’s liberal justices sided with his administration’s effort to restore control over the nation’s immigration policy.

In an 8–1 decision, the Court overturned a lower court injunction that had blocked President Trump from ending the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants living in the United States. The sole dissent came from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, an appointee of former President Joe Biden.

The ruling clears the path for the Trump administration to rescind the Biden-era TPS protections for roughly 300,000 Venezuelan nationals and proceed with deportations. The administration had argued that the lower court’s intervention represented an unconstitutional overreach into executive authority.

“The decision clears the way for the Trump administration to move forward with its plans to terminate Biden-era Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for roughly 300,000 Venezuelan migrants living in the U.S. and allows the administration to move forward with plans to immediately remove these migrants, which lawyers for the administration argued they should be able to do,” the report said.

During oral arguments earlier this month, U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer emphasized that the judiciary had no authority to interfere with the President’s constitutional role in shaping immigration and foreign policy.

“The district court’s reasoning is untenable,” Sauer told the justices. He explained that TPS “implicates particularly discretionary, sensitive, and foreign-policy-laden judgments of the Executive Branch regarding immigration policy.”

The administration’s position was backed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who formally revoked TPS for Venezuela in a February memorandum that took effect in April.

“After reviewing current country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary of Homeland Security has determined that Venezuela no longer meets the conditions for the 2023 designation,” Noem’s memo stated. “It has been determined that it is contrary to the national interest to permit the covered Venezuelan nationals to remain temporarily in the United States.”

The move effectively reversed a series of extensions issued by former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas under the Biden administration, which had kept Venezuelan migrants under protected status through October 2026. Noem rescinded those decisions on January 28, 2025, restoring the pre-Biden policy.

The Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in California had previously blocked Noem’s order in March, accusing the administration of portraying Venezuelan migrants as “possible criminals” in what he called rhetoric that “smacks of racism.”

That rebuke has now been decisively overturned by the highest court in the land—affirming President Trump’s authority to secure the border, uphold immigration law, and protect American sovereignty.