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Supreme Court Weighs Trump’s Power to End Protected Status for Syrians, Haitians

In more news from the Supreme Court, the conservative majority on Wednesday appeared to side with the Trump administration’s argument that it has the authority to revoke temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and Syria. During oral arguments, the court’s six conservative justices signaled skepticism toward lower court rulings that had blocked the administration’s efforts to end TPS designations, which shield immigrants from deportation when their home countries are deemed unsafe. A ruling in favor of the administration could strip legal protections from some 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, and potentially more than a million TPS holders nationwide. Geoffrey Pipoly is a lawyer representing tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants challenging the Trump administration’s termination of their TPS. Geoffrey Pipoly: “The true reason for the termination is the president’s racial animus towards nonwhite immigrants and bare dislike of Haitians in particular. The president has disparaged Haitian TPS holders specifically as undesirables from a, quote, 'shithole country,' and days after falsely accusing them of, quote, 'eating the dogs and eating the cats of Americans,' he vowed that he would terminate Haiti’s TPS. And that is exactly what happened.”

In Syria, Kidnappings of Women and Girls Fuel a Minority Group’s Fears

A Times investigation found that abductions of women and girls from Syria’s Alawite minority were more common, and more brutal, than the government has acknowledged.