A Trump administration lawyer has urged the US Supreme Court to let officials end temporary protections for more than 6,000 Syrians living legally in the country, asking the justices on Thursday to clear the way for the termination of their Temporary Protected Status and to rule on the administration's broader power to reshape the programme.
The move drags the Supreme Court back into one of the most fraught corners of US immigration policy, and into a direct clash between the White House and lower federal courts. What is new here is not the policy itself, which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced last autumn, but the administration's demand for rapid intervention and a definitive ruling after repeated defeats in the lower courts.
