Venezuelan migrants were slated to lose their government-issued work permits and deportation protections next week, on April 7.

The law known as TPS provides work authorization and rights to live in the United States if the Homeland Security secretary deems conditions in their home countries are unsafe for return.

After a federal judge in California paused the Trump administration's termination of protections for Venezuelan immigrants Monday, a judge in Boston declined to hear a similar case, but left it open in the event the California decision is overturned.