In arguments submitted to America's highest judicial body last month, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer laid out the case for removing roughly 300,000 Venezuelans who are currently in the country.

Sauer's efforts have paid off, as the Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will allow the Trump administration to proceed with its deportation plans.  

Supreme Court overturns lower court's ruling

As CBS News noted, the case concerns Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a legal designation under which aliens can live and work in the U.S. due to armed conflict, natural disasters, or some other extraordinary circumstance in their home country.

On September 5, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ruled against an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to end TPS for Venezuelan and Haitian nationals.

In May, the Supreme Court previously overturned a preliminary injunction which Chen issued against the White House while the case was being litigated.

Sauer complained in his latest filing that Chen's decision "impedes important immigration enforcement policies" by the executive branch.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authors dissent

He also added that "[l]ower courts cannot treat this Court's orders as good for only one stage of only one case by gesturing at irrelevant distinctions, subjectively grading the persuasiveness of the Court's perceived reasoning, or faulting the Court's terseness."

A majority of the Supreme Court's justices agree with that reasoning in an unsigned order, writing, "Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties' legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here."

CBS News reported that Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor expressed opposition to the ruling, as did Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who authored a dissent.

For its part, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) welcomed Friday's ruling in a statement which the agency put up on social media.

ICE: "The law and the American people are on our side"

"President Trump is restoring America's immigration system so that it actually benefits the U.S. citizen and today's Supreme Court victory is a win for the American people and commonsense," the statement began.

President Trump is restoring America's immigration system so that it actually benefits the U.S. citizen and today's Supreme Court victory is a win for the American people and commonsense.

In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court of the United States granted an emergency request by the…

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 4, 2025

"In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court of the United States granted an emergency request by the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 300,000 Venezuelan aliens in the United States," it observed.

"Temporary Protected Status was always supposed to be just that: Temporary. Yet, previous administrations abused, exploited, and mangled TPS into a de facto amnesty program," the statement alleged.