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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/supreme-court-immigration-rulings>
"Lawmakers and immigration advocacy groups on Thursday sharply denounced two US
supreme court rulings that allowed the Trump administration to strip certain
immigration protections and fundamentally reshape the asylum system.
Dozens of groups, advocates and members of Congress called the court’s
decisions “disastrous” and “cruel”, while the Trump administration, Republican
lawmakers and anti-immigrant groups celebrated the rulings.
people hold signs that read 'TPS justice' and 'protect TPS families'
“Today, Trump’s loyalists in the supreme court have joined forces with him to
deny immigrants’ internationally recognized human rights and advance an
authoritarian, white-supremacist agenda at home,” said the Illinois
congresswoman Delia Ramirez, a Democrat. “The supreme court’s decisions put
more than 350,000 TPS holders at risk of deportation and countless more asylum
seekers’ lives in danger.”
One of Thursday’s rulings from the supreme court stripped away temporary
protected status (TPS) from hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians, who
were living and working legally in the US and were protected from deportation.
The TPS policy allows immigrants from specific countries to live and work in
the US without the threat of deportation, due to violent or unstable conditions
in their countries.
Despite the state department currently warning against traveling to Haiti or
Syria, citing violence, Haitians and Syrians in the US on TPS are now
vulnerable to deportation, even if they have applications for other forms of
immigration status in progress.
“Simply put, the supreme court’s ruling will directly result in thousands of
innocent people dying violent, needless deaths,” said attorneys Geoff Pipoly
and Andy Tauber in a statement, who represented Haitians before the supreme
court in the TPS case. “This decision will endanger Haitian TPS holders who
fled their homeland in pursuit of what generations of immigrants yearned for
when they made the painful decision to leave all they have known: to live in
safety.”"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-refoulement
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*** Xanni ***
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