WASHINGTON, D.C. – FWD.us President Todd Schulte issued the following statement after the Supreme Court issued a decision allowing the Trump administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Venezuelans currently living and working legally in the United States:

“Today’s harmful ruling eases the administration’s efforts to strip legal status and work authorization away from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans building their lives here and working legally in critical industries that support the U.S. economy. This decision will destabilize families, employers, and American communities across the country.

“To be clear, the dire conditions that led the U.S. to grant TPS to Venezuelans have not changed. President Trump himself once called Venezuela ‘the worst humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere,’ and Secretary of State Rubio recently referred to the Maduro regime as ‘enemies of humanity.’ If you check the U.S. State Department website today, it continues to advise Americans not to travel to Venezuela, citing threats of torture, kidnapping, and civil unrest. Country conditions still meet the legal standard for maintaining TPS.

“As we wait to fully understand the implications of this decision, we urge the Trump administration to keep work authorizations in place and abandon this cruel and unlawful effort to strip protections from individuals contributing to our country every single day.”