US supreme court allows Trump to revoke protected status for Venezuelans

Donald Trump’s administration can end legal protections that have shielded about 350,000 Venezuelans from potential deportation, the supreme court ruled on Monday. America’s highest court granted a request by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for the Venezuelans while an appeal proceeds in a lower court. In March a federal judge in California put a temporary stay on Trump administration plans to end TPS for the Venezuelan nationals. The Trump administration then asked the supreme court to intervene. Trump responded: “The Supreme Court of the United States is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do.