In a two paragraph order lacking any justification, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of a district court order which sought to challenge DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s reckless cancellation of Temporary Protective Status for 350,000 Venezuelan refugees on the basis of racial bias. On Monday, the Supreme Court condoned this racist discrimination which Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at UCLA called “the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern US history.” This will result in the nullification of work permits and the devastating threat of detention and deportation to a country from which these children and adults fled in fear of their lives.

Of course, this decision also co-signs immunity for the Trump administration’s racist and illegal actions and undermines the Court’s own authority and responsibility to keep in check the discretion of the executive branch. TPS grants humanitarian protection to individuals when it is unsafe for them to return to their countries of origin. In the 35-year-history of the statute, TPS status has never previously been revoked.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)