Supreme Court allows Trump to terminate temporary deportation protections for Haitians, Syrians
Key takeaways
- It hands the president a major victory on his immigration crackdown.
- The TPS statute plainly bars consideration of respondents non-constitutional claims, Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority.
- As for their remaining claims, Alito said they are unlikely to succeed, including on claims the efforts to end TPS is racially motivated.
Why this matters: political developments that affect policy direction and public trust.
It hands the president a major victory on his immigration crackdown. The Trump administration has sought to terminate more than a dozen countries from Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a program that allows citizens of designated countries to be protected from deportation and receive a pathway to work authorization.
It s an ominous sign for TPS recipients of the many other countries that have also sued to protect their status — cases where lower court judges have often kept TPS in place as they determined the Trump administration s swift decisions were motivated by racial animus.
The TPS statute plainly bars consideration of respondents non-constitutional claims, Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority.