U.S. Court Clears Way To End Protections For Haitians
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the United States could now face deportation after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump Administration to end their temporary protected status.
The six-to-three ruling allows the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to move ahead with plans to end the legal protections that have allowed Haitian migrants to live and work in the United States.
The decision also affects migrants from Syria who were granted the same protections because of conflict and humanitarian conditions in their home country.
The Trump Administration argued that temporary protected status was never meant to be permanent and that the decision to end the programme rests with the Secretary Of Homeland Security.
Immigration advocates had urged the court to keep the protections in place, arguing that Haiti remains too dangerous for many people to return.
However, the court’s conservative majority ruled that federal judges do not have the authority to review those decisions.
The ruling marks another legal victory for President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda and could clear the way for the deportation of large numbers of Haitian migrants.
