Solicitor General D. John Sauer on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to end the legal temporary protected status of over 300,000 Venezuelan migrants, which would make it easier for the Trump administration to deport them.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced earlier this year that she would not renew the legal protection, which allows certain migrants to stay in the country legally if they cannot return home due to natural disasters, armed conflicts or other extraordinary events.

The new request seeks to lift a San Francisco-based federal judge's order, who stated Noem's actions "smacks of racism," according to The Hill. 

"So long as the order is in effect, [Noem] must permit hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals to remain in the country, notwithstanding her reasoned determination that doing so is 'contrary to the national interest,'" Sauer wrote in the emergency application. “The order upsets the judgments of the political branches, prohibiting the Executive Branch from enforcing a time-sensitive immigration policy and indefinitely extending an immigration status that Congress intended to be ‘temporary.'"

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, who was appointed to the court by former President Barack Obama, ordered the challengers to respond to the administration's request by May 8.

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