US supreme court allows Trump to strip temporary status from Venezuelans

Justices' order puts on hold lower-court ruing that found officials had wrongly ended temporary protected status

The US supreme court on Friday allowed Donald Trump's administration to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.

The justices issued an emergency order, which will last as long as the court case continues, putting on hold a lower-court ruling by US district judge Edward Chen in San Francisco that found the president's administration had wrongly ended temporary protected status (TPS) for the Venezuelans. The three liberal justices dissented.