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Monday ruling blocks DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's effort to end Temporary Protected Status for thousands of Venezuelans in US
Chris Geidner
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The Monday ruling that blocks DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's effort to end Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States is an important one for several reasons. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444868/gov.uscourts.cand.444868.93.0_2.pdf
I. INTRODUCTION
At issue is whether this Court should temporarily postpone actions by Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, taken against over 600,000 Venezuelan nationals who have legal status to reside and work temporarily in the United States. The Secretary's actions will shortly strip nearly 350,000 of these residents of their protection under the Temporary Protected Status {"TPS"} program, subjecting them to possible imminent deportation back to Venezuela, a country so rife with economic and political upheaval and danger that the State Department has categorized Venezuela as a "Level 4: Do Not Travel" country "due to the high risk of wrongful detentions, terrorism, kidnapping, the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, poor health infrastructure."
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/venezuela-travel-
advisory.html (last visited 3/30/2025). The unprecedented action of vacating existing TPS (a step never taken by any previous administration in the 35 years of the TPS program), initiated just three days after Secretary Noem took office, reverses actions taken by the Biden administration to extend temporary protection of Venezuelan nationals that have been in place since 2021.
ALT
April 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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The Monday ruling that blocks DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's effort to end Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States is an important one for several reasons. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.444868/gov.uscourts.cand.444868.93.0_2.pdf
I. INTRODUCTION
At issue is whether this Court should temporarily postpone actions by Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, taken against over 600,000 Venezuelan nationals who have legal status to reside and work temporarily in the United States. The Secretary's actions will shortly strip nearly 350,000 of these residents of their protection under the Temporary Protected Status {"TPS"} program, subjecting them to possible imminent deportation back to Venezuela, a country so rife with economic and political upheaval and danger that the State Department has categorized Venezuela as a "Level 4: Do Not Travel" country "due to the high risk of wrongful detentions, terrorism, kidnapping, the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, poor health infrastructure."
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/venezuela-travel-
advisory.html (last visited 3/30/2025). The unprecedented action of vacating existing TPS (a step never taken by any previous administration in the 35 years of the TPS program), initiated just three days after Secretary Noem took office, reverses actions taken by the Biden administration to extend temporary protection of Venezuelan nationals that have been in place since 2021.
ALT
April 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3llr3gb7w2s25