The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to remove legal protections from thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants in the United States, meaning they could be subject to deportation.
The court, on a 6-3 vote on ideological lines, ruled in favor of the administration, which asked to continue with its plan to strip Temporary Protected Status from about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians.
Writing for the majority, conservative Justice Samuel Alito said that judges overstepped their authority in second-guessing the administration’s decision. The court also rejected a claim that the decision to remove protections for Haitians was discriminatory.
So basically, the Supreme Court (as they should since "Temporary" means "temporary") ruled 6-3 in favor of the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Syria and Haiti. The conservative justices found that federal law limits judicial review of such TPS decisions and said the plaintiffs’ equal protection claim was unlikely to succeed. Congress created TPS in 1990 to provide temporary humanitarian relief for people unable to safely return home, but some designations lasted for decades. The ruling allows the administration to move forward with ending protections that lower liberal courts had previously blocked.
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