A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump Administration from ending protections for 600,000 Venezuelans.
The three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals included: Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw (Clinton), Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr. (Obama), and Judge Anthony Johnstone (Biden).
Earlier this year, an Obama-appointed judge in San Francisco ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and ordered a freeze on ending the protections.
The appeals court judges upheld the lower court’s decision to give 600,000 Venezuelans ‘Temporary Protected Status’ (TPS).
“In the TPS context, Plaintiffs are likely to succeed in their claim that Congress has displaced any inherent revocation authority by explicitly providing the procedure by which a TPS designation is terminated,” they wrote.
CBS News reported:
A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California upheld a lower court ruling that maintained temporary protected status, or TPS, for Venezuelans while the case proceeded through court.
An email to the Department of Homeland Security for comment was not immediately returned.
The 9th Circuit panel found that plaintiffs were likely to succeed on their claim that the department had no authority to vacate or set aside a prior TPS extension because the governing statute written by Congress does not permit for it.
“In enacting the TPS statute, Congress designed a system of temporary status that was predictable, dependable, and insulated from electoral politics,” the court wrote.
