Border Czar Tom Homan is angry that another activist judge issued a nationwide injunction on the deportations of Venezuelans, who are under a Temporary Protection Status (TPS).

First, here’s the ruling from late yesterday via Bill Melugin:

Federal judge Edward Chen in San Francisco has blocked the Trump administration from ending TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for 350,000 Venezuelans in the US, for now. Their work permits & protection from removal was set to be terminated next week.

Judge Chen writes: “…the Secretary’s action threatens to: inflict irreparable harm on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives, families, and livelihoods will be severely disrupted, cost the United States billions in economic activity, and injure public health and safety in communities throughout the United States. At the same time, the government has failed to identify any real countervailing harm in continuing TPS for Venezuelan beneficiaries.”

Melugin goes on to point out that the 9th Circuit sided with the Trump administration during President Trump’s first term after they “sought to terminate TPS for Haiti, Sudan, Nicaragua, and El Salvador and a district judge tried to block it”, ruling that immigration statuses like TPS are not subject to judicial review:

Notably, U.S. law says this is not subject to judicial review, and the 9th Circuit upheld that in Trump’s first term.

8 U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(5):

“There is no judicial review of any determination of the [DHS Secretary] with respect to the designation, or termination or extension of a designation, of a foreign state under this subsection.”

Now you know why Tom Homan is angry. Here’s what he had to say:

While he says the activist ruling is stupid, he does say they will litigate it and will win. And based on what we see above from the 9th Circuit, it shouldn’t take that long to get this nationwide injunction removed.