The emergency appeal asks the justices to halt a lower-court order keeping in place temporary legal status for more than 500,000 people.

President Donald Trump suggested that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against his immigration policies could destroy the U.S. Trump attacked the court on Truth Social after asking it for permission to deport Venezuelan men whom his administration accused of being linked to gangs.

The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to resume the deportations of nearly 200 Venezuelan migrants detained in Texas, requesting that the court lift its order from last month that temporarily paused the deportation of migrants subject to the Alien Enemies Act.