Trump is getting rid of everyone he considers an "undesirable", the question is will someone sitting in front a computer be in charge of determining what immigrants can stay, and which ones must leave? Will Trump throw the net over everyone, and order them all to leave? How long have they already lived here? What if you've lived here for 10 years? Can you imagine being removed to Haiti?
The Trump administration can cancel temporary humanitarian protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants living legally in the United States, the Supreme Court found on Thursday, a decision that could allow the government to deport hundreds of thousands of people starting this year.
The effects are likely to be immediate and ripple beyond Haitians and Syrians to affect approximately 1.3 million immigrants from 17 countries who had temporary protected status when President Donald Trump took office. Since then, the Department of Homeland Security has sought to eliminate protections for 13 of those countries, including Haiti, Syria and several others that the State Department considers highly dangerous.
In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the conservative justices found that courts do not have authority to review determinations by DHS to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian immigrants.
The majority also found that the Haitians were unlikely to succeed on their claim that racial animus had motivated the decision to end their TPS status.
As evidence, the Haitian plaintiffs had cited Trumpās false claims that Haitian residents in Springfield, Ohio, were killing and eating their neighborsā pets ā as well as his assertion that immigrants were āpoisoning the bloodā of the country.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said those remarks did not prove the administrationās decision was driven by race. The administrationās justifications were race-neutral, the majority concluded, with an āobvious antipathyā toward past administrationsā handling of TPS.
āPolitical discourse by prominent public figures is increasingly couched in terms that would have scandalized the public just a short time ago ... especially those concerning Haiti and Haitian immigrants to this country,ā Alito wrote. āBut whatever one may think of the cited statements, they are insufficient to show that the termination of Haitiās TPS designation was based on the race of the Haitian people.ā
Justice Elena Kagan sharply disagreed in her dissent, joined by her liberal colleagues, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
āIt is hard to imagine the statements being made today of any White community,ā Kagan wrote. āThe statements fairly shout, in their racial undertones and overtones alike, that race entered into the Presidentās resolve to remove Haitians from this country.ā
Congress created temporary protected status in 1990 to shield immigrants in the United States from being deported to countries engulfed in armed conflict, a natural disaster or another extraordinary crisis, allowing them to work legally in the U.S. for up to 18 months.
WaPo
The Trump administration can cancel temporary humanitarian protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants living legally in the United States, the Supreme Court found on Thursday, a decision that could allow the government to deport hundreds of thousands of people starting this year.
The effects are likely to be immediate and ripple beyond Haitians and Syrians to affect approximately 1.3 million immigrants from 17 countries who had temporary protected status when President Donald Trump took office. Since then, the Department of Homeland Security has sought to eliminate protections for 13 of those countries, including Haiti, Syria and several others that the State Department considers highly dangerous.
In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the conservative justices found that courts do not have authority to review determinations by DHS to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian immigrants.
The majority also found that the Haitians were unlikely to succeed on their claim that racial animus had motivated the decision to end their TPS status.
As evidence, the Haitian plaintiffs had cited Trumpās false claims that Haitian residents in Springfield, Ohio, were killing and eating their neighborsā pets ā as well as his assertion that immigrants were āpoisoning the bloodā of the country.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said those remarks did not prove the administrationās decision was driven by race. The administrationās justifications were race-neutral, the majority concluded, with an āobvious antipathyā toward past administrationsā handling of TPS.
āPolitical discourse by prominent public figures is increasingly couched in terms that would have scandalized the public just a short time ago ... especially those concerning Haiti and Haitian immigrants to this country,ā Alito wrote. āBut whatever one may think of the cited statements, they are insufficient to show that the termination of Haitiās TPS designation was based on the race of the Haitian people.ā
Justice Elena Kagan sharply disagreed in her dissent, joined by her liberal colleagues, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
āIt is hard to imagine the statements being made today of any White community,ā Kagan wrote. āThe statements fairly shout, in their racial undertones and overtones alike, that race entered into the Presidentās resolve to remove Haitians from this country.ā
Congress created temporary protected status in 1990 to shield immigrants in the United States from being deported to countries engulfed in armed conflict, a natural disaster or another extraordinary crisis, allowing them to work legally in the U.S. for up to 18 months.
WaPo
