Supreme Court weighs Trump effort to terminate temporary protections for Haitian, Syrian migrants
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will weigh the legality of President Donald Trump's bid to revoke temporary legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants living and working temporarily in...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday will weigh the legality of President Donald Trump 's bid to revoke temporary legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants living and working temporarily in the U.S. — a closely watched court fight with possible far-reaching ramifications. At issue in Mullin v. Doe is the Trump administration's effort to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for some 350,000 migrants from Haiti and roughly 7,000 migrants from Syria. TPS grants individuals from certain countries temporary legal status to live and work in the U.S. if their home countries are deemed by the U.S. to be unsafe to return to, due to a disaster, armed conflict or other "extraordinary and temporary conditions." The Supreme Court agreed last month to review the two consolidated cases, and took the somewhat unusual step of granting "certiorari before judgment" — or, reviewing the case on its merits before federal appeals courts reviewed the lower district rulings. A ruling could come as early as this summer. Trump's efforts to end TPS are not new. The administration has moved to revoke TPS designations for 13 countries since last January, and the arguments themselves are expected to focus closely not on the merits of individual designations under TPS, but the power of the courts to review the designations. A ruling from the high court could therefore have much more widespread ramifications, not only for the TPS holders from Haiti and Syria, but for the more than 1.3 million migrants currently living in the U.S. under the temporary legal program. BIDEN-APPOINTED FEDERAL JUDGE RULES TRUMP'S 'THIRD COUNTRY' DEPORTATION POLICY IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL Trump has sought to unwind TPS designations, arguing they have been extended for far too long under former administrations, including under former President Joe Biden. Lawyers for the Trump administration urged the Supreme Court in March to consolidate two lower court cases seeking to overturn orders that blocked the admi…