"Some girls arrive home to flowers on their doorstep," jokes Emma. "For me it's not unusual to arrive home to a spider in a jar."
The ruling marks a win for US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly tried to use the Supreme Court to enact immigration policy decisions.Venezuelans living in the US were first granted TPS in 2021.
The secretary of Homeland Security at the time, Alejandro N Mayorkas, said the Biden administration had taken the decision "due to extraordinary and temporary conditions in Venezuela that prevent nationals from returning safely".He said the South American country was suffering "a complex humanitarian crisis marked by widespread hunger and malnutrition, a growing influence and presence of non-state armed groups, repression, and a crumbling infrastructure".According to the UN's refugee agency, almost eight million Venezuelans have left their homeland since the crisis began in 2014. Most of them are living in Latin American and Caribbean countries but hundreds of thousands moved to the United States.
The Trump administration wanted to end protections and work permits for migrants with TPS in April 2025, more than a year before they were originally supposed to end in October 2026.Lawyers representing the US government argued the California federal court, the US District Court for the Northern District of California, had undermined "the Executive Branch's inherent powers as to immigration and foreign affairs," when it stopped the administration from ending protections and work permits in April.
Ahilan Arulanantham, who represents TPS holders in the case, told the BBC he believed this to be "the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern US history".
"That the Supreme Court authorized this action in a two-paragraph order with no reasoning is truly shocking," Mr Arulanantham said. "The humanitarian and economic impact of the Court's decision will be felt immediately, and will reverberate for generations."Proposals must be balanced against issues such as the landscape, heritage, agriculture, biodiversity, access and the views of the local community, she added.
An MP has opposed plans for an electricity storage plant in the countryside the size of 10 football pitches.Statkraft UK Ltd, which produces renewable energy, wants to build the 8.6-hectare (21-acre) plant close to a substation at the village of East Claydon in Buckinghamshire.
Greg Smith, the Conservative MP for Mid Buckinghamshire, said: "Once again, I will be objecting to this in the strongest possible terms."A Statkraft spokesperson said the site - to store excess electricity generated by wind and solar farms which could then be released into the National Grid - could "help play an important role in decarbonising the UK".