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The Supreme Court on Mon­day al­lowed the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion to strip le­gal pro­tec­tions from 350,000 Venezue­lans, po­ten­tial­ly ex­pos­ing them to de­por­ta­tion.

The court’s or­der, with on­ly one not­ed dis­sent, puts on hold a rul­ing from a fed­er­al judge in San Fran­cis­co that kept in place Tem­po­rary Pro­tect­ed Sta­tus for the Venezue­lans that would have oth­er­wise ex­pired last month. The jus­tices pro­vid­ed no ra­tio­nale, which is com­mon in emer­gency ap­peals.

The sta­tus al­lows peo­ple al­ready in the Unit­ed States to live and work legal­ly be­cause their na­tive coun­tries are deemed un­safe for re­turn due to nat­ur­al dis­as­ter or civ­il strife.