Immigration lawyer Jodi Goodwin said her Venezuelan clients for years held onto the idea that their status in the US was stable. They had work permits and paid taxes under a US humanitarian program that offered refuge from turmoil back home.

The Supreme Court decision applies to about 348,000 Venezuelans nationwide who had secured temporary protected status under an initiative launched in 2023 by the Biden administration.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday insisted that the country is not withdrawing from the world, as he batted away criticism of cuts to aid and diplomatic budgets from former colleagues in ...