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Supreme Court appears to lean toward ending TPS for some migrants

NPR·Nina Totenberg·about 1 month ago
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The U.S. Supreme Court Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images The Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready Wednesday to allow the Trump administration to potentially proceed with mass deportations of more than a million foreign nationals, including those from Haiti and Syria, who live and work legally in the United States. Until now these individuals have been accorded temporary legal status because their safety is imperiled by war or natural disasters in their home countries. Congress enacted the Temporary Protected Status program in 1990, and every president since then — Republican and Democrat — has embraced TPS. President Trump, however, is trying to end it. On Wednesday his solicitor general, D. John Sauer, told the justices that the statute clearly bars any court review of the administration's decisions.…

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