Venezuelans lose protected immigrant status after two Supreme Court decisions

The Supreme Court sided with the Trump Administration in removing protected status for hundreds of thousands of otherwise-unauthorized Venezuelan immigrants. Mass deportation could be next.

The Supreme Court agreed this month that the Trump Administration was within its constitutional rights to vacate an extension of a 2023 immigration policy that had allowed hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans to live and work in the U.S. over the last several years. As a result, one of the largest populations of unauthorized migrants registered with the…