A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to end deportation relief and work permits for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants with temporary protected status. Approximately 350,000 Venezuelans with TPS could have faced mass deportation by early April, but the decision will allow them to remain in the United States while the measure is challenged in court. In his ruling, San Francisco Federal Judge Edward Chen said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s move to terminate TPS for Venezuelans would “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.”