A national immigration group is suing to block the Trump administration’s termination of removal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals in the US.
The Department of Homeland Security said earlier this month it would let a Temporary Protected Status designation for the country expire in April for the Venezuelans, claiming it’s not in the US national interest for the immigrants to remain in the country. That decision followed the agency’s cancellation last month of a TPS extension through October 2026 for Venezuelans.
The termination of protections exceeded the statutory authority of DHS and was arbitrary and capricious, according ...