President Donald Trump and his administration just asked the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court to put an end to legal protections for Venezuelan migrants in America. 

These are the same migrants who, according to Just the News, were granted Temporary Protected Status by the previous administration.

Trump and his team have been fighting this in the courts, and the latest development came on Friday.

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Trump DOJ files emergency order

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), on Friday, filed an emergency order with the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to remove the migrants Temporary Protected Status.

The Associated Press reports:

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order allowing it to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants. The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that the administration wrongly ended Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans.

The outlet goes on to quote from the filing, which was made by Solicitor General D. John Sauer.

It, in part, reads:

This case is familiar to the court and involves the increasingly familiar and untenable phenomenon of lower courts disregarding this Court’s orders on the emergency docket.

Sauer went on to argue that the lower court's ruling is "based on meritless legal theories."

Background

Trump and his administration has been trying to end the Temporary Protected Status of these migrants for months now.

The Hill reports:

The Friday filing asks the high court to block an appeals court decision that found Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lacked the authority to vacate the protections for some 600,000 Venezuelans. A three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in August reinstated Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans in the U.S., which was lifted by the Supreme Court despite a lower court ruling determining the Trump administration unlawfully axed the protection.

More details are provided by Just the News.

It notes:

Temporary Protected Status is given to people from countries that are unsafe because of a natural disaster, political instability or other dangerous conditions. The protections are granted for six, 12 or 18 months and allow the recipient to work in the United States and prevents them from being deported.

The Trump administration, however, is arguing that the system was abused and misused by its predecessor.