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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s efforts to revoke temporary status for foreign nationals in the United States on Thursday. The decision was 6-3, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in the dissent.
The ruling in the consolidated cases Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot dates back to Trump’s bid to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from large swaths of Syrian and Haitian nationals residing in America under the program. As The Federalist previously reported, the challengers contesting the president’s decision argued that the statutory provisions governing TPS “do not bar courts from reviewing an administration’s actions on the program and that the government is required to undertake certain steps (ex. consultation and assessment of a country’s conditions) before implementing such policies.”
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito determined that the TPS statute does, in fact, bar federal courts from reviewing “non-constitutional claims” like those brought by the challengers. He further noted that the “sole constitutional claim” brought in the Miot case — that the Trump administration’s revocation of TPS for Haitians was racially motivated — “will likely fail.”
“Viewing all the relevant evidence, we conclude that Miot respondents are unlikely to prove that race was a motivating factor in the decision to terminate Haiti’s TPS designation,” Alito wrote. “It follows that they are not entitled to interim relief on their equal protection claim.”
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh joined the court’s opinion in full. Meanwhile, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett joined all parts except as to a section that argued, “In [Miot], we need not resolve whether the TPS statute meets that clear-statement rule because we conclude that Miot respondents’ constitutional claim is unlikely to succeed on the merits.”
While joining Alito’s opinion in full, Thomas authored a concurrence laying out “two more fundamental problems” with the lawsuit brought by challengers to Trump’s TPS revocation for Haitians. --->READ MORE HERE
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can turn away migrants who show up at the US-Mexico border before they apply for asylum, in a victory for the White House’s immigration crackdown that prompted a tense exchange between two justices.
The high court ruled 6-3 in favor of a policy known as “metering,” in use during President Trump’s first term as well as Barack Obama’s administration, which capped the number of people who could apply for asylum each day.
Immigration advocates had claimed that aliens should be considered to “arrive” in the US once they reached the border and argued the policy violated federal law, stating that migrants can apply for asylum upon entry, regardless of whether they did so legally or illegally.
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito disagreed, writing in the majority opinion: “In ordinary speech, no one would say that a person ‘arrives in’ a place—for example, a house, a city, or a country—before the person enters that place.
“The context in which the phrase ‘arrives in the United States’ is used in the immigration statutes at issue here supports an ordinary-meaning reading.”
The administration had argued that the policy was necessary to deal with a massive influx of migrants at the southern border, adding that people who were initially turned away could always come back and attempt to apply later.
“This is a tremendous win for the Trump Administration, the rule of law, and common sense,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement. “President Trump remains committed to lawfully restoring integrity to our immigration system, which includes tackling the egregious abuses to our asylum system that the prior administration encouraged. We will always put the American people first.”
To qualify for asylum, migrants must show a fear of persecution in their homeland for specific reasons, like race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
Once granted asylum, migrants are protected from deportation and can legally work, bring in immediate family, apply for legal residency, and seek citizenship.
All three Democrat-appointed justices dissented. Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the rare step of reading her dissent from the bench, adding extemporaneously that her colleagues’ ruling “regrettably and tragically extinguishes the light of the torch of the Statue of Liberty.” --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
+++++Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip TPS, Turn Away Asylum Seekers Arriving at the Border in Pair of New Immigration Rulings+++++
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