DistantNews
Support us
'America's doors are closed fully to asylum seekers': Supreme Court upholds Trump immigration policies
🇮🇳 India /Culture & Society

'America's doors are closed fully to asylum seekers': Supreme Court upholds Trump immigration policies

From Times of India · () English

Summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

At a glance

News Named sources Outcome reported
  • The US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 350,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians.
  • The 6-3 ruling, with a conservative majority, stated that courts cannot review the administration's TPS decisions.
  • Justice Elena Kagan's dissent argued that race played a role in the decision regarding Haitian immigrants, citing Trump's past remarks.
  • White House adviser Stephen Miller asserted that the US is closed to asylum seekers and that TPS holders from Haiti should depart, dismissing safety concerns.

The US Supreme Court has permitted the Trump administration to revoke a humanitarian status protecting hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants from deportation. The 6-3 ruling, supported by the court's conservative justices, overturns lower court decisions that had halted the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 350,000 individuals from Haiti and 6,100 from Syria.

The law governing TPS plainly bars such judicial review

— Samuel AlitoAuthor of the majority ruling, explaining the court's decision on judicial review of TPS decisions.

Justice Samuel Alito, authoring the majority opinion, stated that federal courts lack the authority to review the administration's decisions regarding TPS. "The law governing TPS plainly bars such judicial review," Alito wrote, suggesting this could impact future legal challenges to TPS revocations for any country.

The references, of filth, disease and primitiveness, are shot through with racial stereotypes and tropes. It is hard to imagine the statements being made today of any White community.

— Elena KaganIn her dissent, highlighting evidence of racial bias in the administration's decision regarding Haitian immigrants.

In a dissenting opinion, Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, argued that evidence of racial bias in the administration's decision concerning Haiti was evident. Kagan pointed to specific past statements by Trump, including unsubstantiated claims about Haitian immigrants, which she described as "shot through with racial stereotypes and tropes."

The fact that there might be pockets of Haiti where there's higher crime rates, guess what? There's pockets of Chicago with crime rates just as high.

— Stephen MillerWhite House adviser dismissing concerns about safety in Haiti.

White House adviser Stephen Miller declared that "America's doors are closed fully to asylum seekers." He urged Haitian TPS holders to leave the country, downplaying concerns about violence in Haiti by comparing its crime rates to those in some US cities. Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche praised the ruling, emphasizing that TPS was always intended to be temporary. Viles Dorsainvil, a Haitian TPS holder, expressed fear for thousands of families, stating, "Haiti is not safe, and everyone knows it."

America's doors are closed fully to asylum seekers

— Stephen MillerWhite House adviser stating the US policy on asylum seekers.
DistantNews Editorial

Originally published by Times of India. Summarized and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

More Stories

From Our Blog