Overview

• The unsigned Oct. 3 order revives the administration’s plan to revoke Temporary Protected Status for roughly 300,000–350,000 Venezuelans.
• The Court stayed U.S. District Judge Edward Chen’s injunction that had blocked DHS from terminating TPS after his September merits ruling.
• Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, with Jackson calling the intervention a harmful misuse of the emergency docket.
• Beneficiaries face the risk of detention and deportation as work authorization lapses approach, including Nov. 7 timelines for certain 2021 designation cohorts.
• The case proceeds in the Ninth Circuit while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem argues TPS was meant to be temporary, and immigrant advocates urge affected Venezuelans to seek legal counsel promptly.