CELEBRITY
BREAKINGđ¨ Trump just told the Supreme Court judges have NO role in stopping his mass deportation plan.
BREAKINGđ¨ Trump just told the Supreme Court judges have NO role in stopping his mass deportation plan.
In a new brief in the Temporary Protected Status case, Trumpâs Justice Department argues that federal courts are essentially barred from reviewing his decisions to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.
The message to the justices is blunt: when he decides an entire community should lose its status and be sent back into violence, no judge should have the power to say no.
Temporary Protected Status was created for exactly the people Trump is targeting â families from countries wrecked by war, natural disasters, or political collapse.
Haitians who fled after earthquakes and political chaos, Syrians who escaped bombedâout cities, people whoâve lived here for years, built families, paid taxes. Lower federal courts already found that Trumpâs move to strip TPS was likely unlawful and infected with âracial animus,â and they blocked him from yanking that protection overnight.
Rather than fix the process or admit the evidence of danger on the ground, Trump is trying to knock the referees off the field. His brief leans on a line in the 1990 immigration statute that says TPS âdeterminationsâ arenât reviewable, twisting it into a blank check â not just for the final decision, but for any pretext, sham consultation, or discriminatory motive that leads up to it.
In plain language: even if his team lies about country conditions, ignores their own experts, or targets nonâwhite immigrants, he says courts should be powerless.
Immigrant advocates are warning exactly what that would mean. If the Supreme Court signs off on this, itâs not just Haitians and Syrians. Itâs 1.3 million people from every TPSâdesignated country who could see their lives decided at the stroke of a pen with no judge able to look behind the curtain.
Families who have been here for decades could be told to pack up for places the State Department itself says are too dangerous to visit.
And of course this fits a pattern. This is the same Trump who tried to add a citizenship question to the census, who fired immigration judges, who calls migrants âkillers and leeches,â and who keeps insisting he has âtotalâ authority any time a court tells him no. Heâs spent years trying to turn Article III judges into rubber stamps, especially when race and immigration are on the line.
The people at the center of this arenât abstractions. Theyâre the Haitian nurse in Miami who has no close family left in PortâauâPrince because of kidnappings.
The Syrian construction worker in Detroit who hasnât seen his hometown since it was flattened by shelling. Kids who have only ever known this country and would be shipped to places theyâve never seen because a man in Washington wants a talking point about âending temporary status.â
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the coming days, with a decision expected by summer. While Trumpâs lawyers argue that judges should sit on their hands, families across the country are waiting to hear whether nine justices think this president gets to deport hundreds of thousands of people without anyone ever checking his homework.
If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.