The US Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to allow the Trump administration to proceed with plans to terminate deportation protections for 6,000 Syrian migrants living in the country.

The department's emergency appeal, filed on Thursday, requests the high court to lift a lower court decision from November that blocked the move to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syrians.

This is the latest effort by the Trump administration to restrict migration to the US. The Department of Homeland Security has broadly sought to end TPS for nationals from 12 countries, including Haiti, Myanmar, Somalia, and Yemen, despite critics warning those nations remain unstable.

The Supreme Court previously allowed the administration to remove TPS for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in May and October rulings. TPS was first granted to Syrians in 2012 during the civil war, but the administration argues the conflict has ended and the new Syrian government is supported by the US.

Judge Katherine Polk Failla blocked the termination of TPS for Syrians in November, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York declined to overturn that order.

Source: www.aljazeera.com