The U.S. Supreme Court said it would allow the Trump administration to terminate the deportation protection of about 350,000 Venezuelans in the United States.

The ruling lifted the shelves of a California judge who placed temporary protected identity (TPS) in Venezuelans who will expire last month.

The status of temporary protection allows people to be seen as unsafe according to their home country, because countries such as those suffering from war, natural disasters, or other "extraordinary and temporary" conditions can legally live and work in the United States.

The ruling marks a victory for U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly tried to use the Supreme Court to make immigration policy rulings.

The Trump administration hopes to terminate protection and work permits for TPS immigration in April 2025, which is over a year ago, and they were supposed to end in October 2026.

Attorneys representing the U.S. government argued that the California federal court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, weakened the executive’s inherent authority over immigration and diplomatic affairs as it prevented the government from terminating protection and work permits in April.

Ahilan Arulanantham, representing the TPS holder, told the BBC that he believes it is "the biggest action to deprive any non-citizen immigration status in modern American history".

“The Supreme Court authorized this action with a two-paragraph order, and there was no reasoning that it was really shocking,” Arulananthum said. “The humanitarian and economic impact of the court’s judgment will be felt immediately and will be passed down from generation to generation.”

Since this is an emergency appeal, the Supreme Court justice did not provide a reason for the ruling.

The court order pointed out only one judge's objection, Justice Kaitangi Brown Jackson.

In August, the Trump administration is expected to revoke TPS protections for thousands of Haitians.

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday marks a series of decisions from the High Court on immigration policies the Trump administration allows them to rule.

Last week, the government asked the Supreme Court to end humanitarian parole for thousands of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan immigrants.

Aside from some of their successes, the Trump administration was hit Friday when the High Court blocked Trump from using the 1798 Alien Enemy Act to deport immigrants in North Texas.

Trump had wanted to use hundreds of years of law to quickly expel thousands of laws from the United States, but Supreme Court judges questioned whether the president's lawsuit was legal.