WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration a green light to revoke special legal protections for thousands of Venezuelan immigrants, which could pave the way for their deportation.

The High Court approved an emergency application from the government, meaning officials could push decisions made at the end of the Biden administration to expand the protection of 300,000 Venezuelans under the federal temporary protection status program.

The brief order states that freelance lawyer Ketanji Brown Jackson would deny the application. The lawsuit will now continue in the lower courts.

Due to the political instability in Venezuela, the Biden administration said in March 2021 that Venezuelans are eligible for temporary protection status under a federal program that has been around since 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to countries from wars, natural disasters, natural disasters or other disasters.

Those who accept the program have legal status in the United States and can obtain up to 18 months of work authorization under extended circumstances.

The issue before the Supreme Court was the subsequent designation filed in October 2023 and extended in January before Donald Trump took office. It is scheduled to expire in October 2026.

In February, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tried to relax the decisions, which meant that the protections would expire this year.

California-based U.S. District Judge Edward Chen blocked the move, citing the decision as racist.

Norm's actions meant that affected immigrants were facing "imminent deportation."

Lawyer D. John Sauer wrote in an emergency government application that the court could not review Noem's ruling.

"The court order violates the privileges of the basic executive branch and has delayed a sensitive policy decision in the field of immigration policy indefinitely, which Congress recognizes is flexibility, fast pace and discretionary decisions."

The National TPS Alliance and Venezuelans challenged in court.

The Trump administration is essentially seeking to evade judicial scrutiny from its own sphere of power, their lawyers wrote.

"What the federal court says about the law is, shouldn't be obvious," they added.

They noted that if Norm’s plan came into effect, this would result in “loss of jobs and widespread deportation of unsafe countries”.

The Supreme Court's ruling only beat the Trump administration another aspect of the court's victory over the Trump administration in another case involving Venezuelan detainees.

In this case, the court ruled that if the administration seeks to deport it using a wartime law called the Alien Enemy Act, the Trump administration must give immigrants a real opportunity to object.