The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can immediately strip humanitarian protections from roughly 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians living legally in the country, paving the way for their deportation.
Thursday's 6-3 decision in Mullin v. Doe overturned lower court orders that had blocked the removal of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a programme created by Congress in 1990 to shield migrants from deportation when their home countries are too dangerous to return to. The ruling effectively hands immigration authorities unchecked power to end the programme, with the conservative majority finding that courts have no basis to intervene.
