Supreme Court allows Trump to end temporary protections for Haitians, Syrians
More than a million immigrants face possible deportation if they can’t get other legal status in the U.S.
By Josh Gerstein
The Supreme Court has given President Donald Trump the go-ahead to end the legal status of more than a million foreigners permitted to live and work in the U.S. due to crises in their home countries.
In a 6-3 decision Thursday, the justices said the administration could strip temporary protected status from thousands of citizens of war-torn Syria and violence-plagued Haiti, despite evident shortcomings in officials’ attempts to gauge the impacts of
Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, said Congress has stripped the courts of power to enforce the legal requirements for TPS. He also said the Haitian immigrants’ claims that the decisions were motivated by racial discrimination were not strong enough to merit an injunction issued by a lower court.
The ruling appears to clear away any remaining legal obstacles to the administration’s attempts to end so-called TPS for immigrants from 13 countries, including Venezuela, Honduras, Afghanistan and Nepal.
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