Overview

• A three-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld a lower-court order keeping Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans in place during the lawsuit.
• The ruling stops the administration’s plan to terminate protections for about 600,000 Venezuelans who currently live and work legally in the United States.
• Judges found the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their claim that the statute does not authorize the government to set aside a previously granted TPS extension.
• The practical effect remains unclear for an estimated 350,000 people whose protections expired in April and roughly 250,000 facing a Sept. 10 expiration.
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has argued that conditions in Venezuela have improved and that continuing a temporary program is not in the national interest.