Venezuelan nationals sued the Trump administration earlier this year for abruptly terminating Temporary Protected Status protections, which allowed them to live and work legally in the U.S.

The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported. The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the

A federal judge recently blocked the Trump administration from removing migration protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants, who would have lost the protections in early April if the judge did not step in.

The Trump administration has deployed the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang members in the U.S.

In a sharply worded ruling, a federal judge said the government failed to provide the court with substantial evidence showing that the couple were members of a gang and subject to deportation.