So here’s something you’re probably not going to hear much about on CNN this week: President Donald Trump just scored a major win at the Supreme Court. And it’s not some small procedural thing—it’s a massive reversal of an activist lower court’s decision that tried to block Trump from doing something totally within the scope of presidential power.
The Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) amnesty for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.
Yes, you heard that right. The highest court in the land, in an 8-1 ruling, just gave Trump the green light to roll back one of the most generous immigration handouts in modern American history.
Here’s what happened: the Trump administration filed an emergency application asking the Court to lift a California judge’s order (of course it was California) that barred the administration from pulling the plug on TPS protections. That judge? U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen—a name you should probably remember because he’s quickly becoming a regular obstacle to common sense.
NBC News covered the ruling, where the Court said:
“The application for stay presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is granted. The March 31, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, case No. 3:25-cv-1766, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELTranslation: Trump’s back in the driver’s seat—at least for now.
Only one justice dissented: Ketanji Brown Jackson, who’s quickly making a name for herself as the go-to vote for anything that undermines border enforcement.
Meanwhile, Dale L. Wilcox, Executive Director and General Counsel for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, had a reality check for everyone still clinging to the idea that the President of the United States can’t control immigration.
In his words:
“The Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized the President’s inherent authority to exclude aliens, and ‘inherent’ clearly means he may exercise it even when he is not guided by a specific statute.”
Finally! @SCOTUS delivers a big win for sanity! “This is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history. says Ahilan Arulanantham, who is representing illegal immigrants from Venezuela. https://t.co/eqy4irT3JH
— Washington State GOP (@WAGOP) May 19, 2025
Let that sink in. “Inherent authority.” As in, the Constitution already gives him that power—even if Congress sits on its hands.
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants as litigation continues
The order is 8-1, with Justice Jackson the lone dissenter. pic.twitter.com/swOdfZ9khv
— Jacob Wheeler (@JWheelertv) May 19, 2025
Of course, as with anything involving immigration and the courts, this is far from over. According to reports:
Litigation regarding the matter will “continue in lower courts,” the outlet reported.
And that means we’ll be stuck watching lawyers fight it out over whether a president has the authority to enforce immigration law… which, again, he absolutely does.
But not everyone’s happy. In fact, one of the attorneys representing the migrants, Ahilan Arulanantham, had a total meltdown over the ruling, calling it the:
“largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history.”
Well, yes. That’s the point. TPS was never meant to be a permanent path to citizenship. The word “temporary” is right there in the name.
This all stems from a bold move in early May when the Trump administration filed an emergency appeal. The goal? To get Judge Chen’s order tossed out. And according to U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer, Chen’s ruling was nothing short of absurd. In Sauer’s words, it was:
“untenable.”
Why? Because Judge Chen went full open-borders ideologue and tried to turn economic contribution into a justification for ignoring immigration law. Seriously, here’s what he said:
“They have higher educational attainment than most U.S. citizens (40-54% have bachelors degrees), have high labor participation rates (80-96%) [because they are younger, on average] … and annually contribute billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and pay hundreds of millions, if not billions, in Social Security taxes.”
So just to be clear—if you pay taxes and have a degree, you can stay? That’s not how laws work. That’s how elite cocktail parties work.
Now here’s where it gets even more interesting. Back in February, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem (yes, you read that right—Noem, not Mayorkas) revoked one of the two TPS designations for Venezuelan migrants.
CBS News reported:
“The move by the Trump administration will mean that an estimated 350,000 Venezuelans covered under a 2023 TPS designation will lose their work permits and deportation protections two months after Noem’s decision is officially published. Venezuelans enrolled in TPS under an earlier 2021 designation will continue to have that status through September, though those protections could also be phased out.”
And just in case you forgot how we got into this TPS mess in the first place—Alejandro Mayorkas. Remember him? The guy who spent his time at DHS trying to outdo the last amnesty program by extending TPS amnesty for 850,000 illegal and quasi-legal migrants until 2026.
As Breitbart News noted:
Noem’s revocation of TPS amnesty for thousands of Venezuelan migrants came after former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas extended TPS amnesty for 850,000 “illegal and quasi-legal economic migrants until 2026,” Breitbart News reported.
So to wrap this all up: Trump just won a huge immigration battle at the Supreme Court. The left is losing their minds. The lower courts are still doing cartwheels to stop it. But the Constitution—and the law—are on Trump’s side.
And for once, the Supreme Court agreed.
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