The administration’s decisions to end temporary protected status for Venezuelans and expedite refugee status for Afrikaners have generated concern that he is using humanitarian protections to reward allies and punish enemies.

The Trump administration argued that courts can't stop the Homeland Security Department from abruptly ending a program for Venezuelan migrants.

The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.