Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is a legal provision which allows citizens of a particular nation to remain in the United States because of conditions "that temporarily prevent the country's nationals from returning safely."

Earlier this year, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration's plan to strip TPS from roughly 350,000 Venezuelan migrants. Yet in a bombshell move, the Supreme Court is allowing that plan to go ahead.

White House hails ruling as a "win for the American people"

According to the Associated Press, that development came in the form of an eight to one ruling put out by America's highest judicial body on Monday.

The news service noted that no rationale was included for the decision and a lone dissent was offered by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

It overturned an emergency injunction issued in late March by California-based U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen, who was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama in 2011.

The Associated Press quoted Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin as saying that Monday's decision constituted a "win for the American people and the safety of our communities."

Former DHS secretary extended TPS for approximately 850,000 people in January

McLaughlin also took a shot at the previous administration for having "exploited programs to let poorly vetted migrants into this country."

"The Trump administration is reinstituting integrity into our immigration system to keep our homeland and its people safe," the spokeswoman went on to declare.

Breitbart noted at the time that in justifying his injunction, Chen pointed to Venezuelan TPS recipients having "higher educational attainment than most U.S. citizens" as well as "high labor participation rates."

What's more, the judge insisted that the migrants "annually contribute billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and pay hundreds of millions, if not billions, in Social Security taxes."

Meanwhile, Breitbart also recalled how then Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas extended TPS for approximately 850,000 people just two weeks before President Joe Biden left the White House.

Two groups of Venezuelans received extended TPS

Those recipients included some 234,000 Salvadorans as well as 600,000 Venezuelans, all of whom were issued work permits that remain valid until March 9, 2026.

CBS News explained that the Venezuelan migrants fall into two groups, one of which first received protection in 2021 while members of the second were given TPS in 2023.

The approximately 350,000 individuals who Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is attempting to remove fall into the first category.