Supreme Court Gives Trump Admin Major Immigration Win
President Donald Trump secured a significant legal victory at the U.S. Supreme Court this week, advancing his administration’s America First immigration policy with a decision that even drew support from traditionally liberal justices.
On Monday, the High Court decisively overturned a lower court injunction that had blocked the president’s lawful authority to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants. The final ruling came in at 8–1, with only left-wing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting—underscoring the overwhelming legal consensus behind Trump’s position.
According to Fox News, the decision allows the Trump administration to proceed with its plans to revoke TPS for nearly 300,000 Venezuelans currently residing in the United States under Biden-era protections. With the injunction lifted, removals can begin immediately.
“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,” Fox News reported.
Solicitor General John Sauer made the administration’s case earlier this month, pushing back against judicial activism that had blocked the president’s immigration enforcement.
“The district court’s reasoning is untenable,” Sauer told the justices, arguing that TPS falls under “particularly discretionary, sensitive, and foreign-policy-laden judgments of the Executive Branch regarding immigration policy.”
This latest ruling not only affirms the president’s authority to set immigration policy in the national interest, it also deals a blow to the overreach of progressive federal judges who have routinely sought to obstruct the enforcement of U.S. law.
The case centers on the Department of Homeland Security’s February 2025 decision to revoke Venezuela’s TPS designation—one of several granted during the Biden administration’s open-borders era. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the policy change following a comprehensive review of the situation in Venezuela.
“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,” the DHS memo stated.
“Specifically, 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 memo also clarified that Secretary Noem’s decision effectively vacated former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s January 2025 attempt to extend TPS for Venezuelans yet again—despite previous extensions under both the 2021 and 2023 designations.
“On January 28, 2025, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem vacated former Secretary Mayorkas’s January 10, 2025 decision, restoring the status quo that preceded that decision,” the memo read.
Mayorkas’s track record on immigration, marred by lax enforcement and politically motivated leniency, stands in stark contrast to the Trump administration’s renewed focus on border security and rule of law.
The administration’s efforts, however, were temporarily blocked in March by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen—an Obama appointee—who accused DHS of being motivated by bias rather than policy.
Judge Chen claimed the portrayal of the migrants as potential public safety risks was “baseless and smacks of racism.”
Such comments drew sharp criticism from immigration advocates and constitutional scholars who noted that national security and immigration enforcement are not subject to a judge’s political preferences. Monday’s Supreme Court decision effectively rebukes that kind of judicial overreach.
President Trump has remained committed to restoring lawful order at the border, and this ruling affirms his constitutional authority to do so. As the administration continues its second-term agenda, this victory serves as a reminder that, even in a politically polarized climate, the Constitution—and the rule of law—still prevail.