DHS to Appeal Postponed Axing of Venezuelan Migrant Protections

A San Francisco judge should stay his order blocking termination of Temporary Protected Status for several hundred thousand Venezuelans in the US while the Department of Homeland Security appeals the decision, the Trump administration said.

If the order isn’t stayed, he should at least narrow relief to plaintiffs who challenged the termination, the government said in a court filing Tuesday.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in February canceled the Biden administration’s extension of the protections and then said she would let existing relief expire for Venezuelan immigrants. About 350,000 would have lost protections after April 7 and another quarter million ...