Federal Judges Halt Trump-Era Overreach, Defend Legal Protections for Venezuelan Americans

In a decisive rebuke to executive overreach, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously blocked the Trump administration's attempt to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for some 600,000 Venezuelan nationals living and working legally in the United States. This ruling upholds a vital legal safeguard that Congress established to ensure predictable, humane immigration policy consistent with national interests. The judges reaffirmed that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lacked authority under the Immigration Act of 1990 to rescind TPS extensions unilaterally once granted. The law was crafted by Congress precisely to prevent politicized tampering with protections...