Judge Edward M. Chen's ruling took aim at the Trump administration's claim that immigrants with Temporary Protected Status ...

: On March 31, 2025, a federal court has granted a Motion to Postpone the DHS Secretary’s Decision to Vacate the Termination ...

Noem found the TPS program allowed "a significant population of inadmissible ... upheaval and danger that the State Department has categorized Venezuela as a 'Level 4: Do Not Travel' country 'due to ...

A federal judge said after a hearing Monday that he will determine whether he has the authority to decide a case in which hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans are at risk of losing deportation ...

Federal Judge Edward M. Chen of the Northern District of California issued a stay on the Trump administration’s revocation ...

According to a federal report published in December 2024, nearly a third of the roughly 1.1 million TPS recipients live in Florida. Of those, 59% are Venezuelan and 35% are Haitian, with the other 6% ...

He said the government had failed to identify any “real countervailing harm in continuing TPS for Venezuelan beneficiaries” and said plaintiffs will likely succeed in showing that Noem’s ...

TPS is available to people whose home country ... In his ruling, Chen wrote that the State Department still categorizes Venezuela as a "Level 4: Do Not Travel" country due to the risk of wrongful ...

“It is evident that the Secretary made sweeping negative generalizations about Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries,” the judge said in a 78-page order. “Acting on the basis of a negative group ...

Terminating the TPS status of Venezuelans alone would result in a combined $12 billion annual loss to the U.S. economy, on top of $4.3 billion dollars in Social Security taxes, Chen wrote.