In a Supreme Court ruling released Thursday, the court sided with the Trump administration in a decision that could leave more than 350,000 Haitians and roughly 6,000 Syrians living in the US vulnerable to deportation.
In a 6-3 vote, the court decided that judges can’t second-guess the US Department of Homeland Security’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Syria and Haiti. It said the lower courts were wrong to temporarily block the TPS terminations; those terminations can proceed while related lawsuits continue in lower courts.
“In these cases, we consider whether respondents, who challenge the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for aliens from Syria and Haiti, are entitled to orders postponing the terminations during litigation. We hold that they are not,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion.
