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The White House commended two major decisions from the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, which bolster the Trump administration’s ability to crack down on immigration.
In these rulings, the high court decided that the Trump administration could cut off temporary legal protections for thousands of Haitians and Syrians and cleared the path for the administration to revive a controversial policy for asylum seekers.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson called the Supreme Court’s decision in each case a “tremendous win” for the Trump administration in statements to The Hill on Thursday afternoon.
The court’s 6-3 decision on temporary legal protections affirmed the administration’s ability to remove Haiti and Syria from the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) list, which allows citizens of designated countries to be protected from deportation and creates a path to work authorization.
“Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what President Trump has always maintained: temporary protected status is, by definition, temporary,” Jackson said in a statement about the TPS ruling.
“It was never intended to be a pathway to permanent status or legal residency and it is committed to the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security,” Jackson wrote. “The Trump administration continues to lawfully end the egregious abuses to our immigration system that have hurt Americans for years.”
GOP Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) commended the court’s ruling on the TPS case in a statement shared on social media.
“Temporary Protective Status is supposed to be just that—temporary,” he wrote. “It’s not a permanent green card for illegal aliens who abuse taxpayer dollars. Today, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of common sense and our national sovereignty.”
Democrats have condemned the court’s TPS ruling, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) calling it a “cruel and inhumane decision” in a social media post. Schumer accused the high court of having “turned its back” on thousands of Haitians and Syrians with this decision.
“TPS exists for exactly this reason: to protect people when returning home is unsafe,” Schumer wrote. “Haiti and Syria remain unsafe today. Instead of showing basic humanity, Donald Trump and this Court have chosen fear, chaos, and cruelty.”
In a separate 6-3 decision on ideological lines Thursday morning, the high court ruled that the Trump administration has the right to revive an Obama-era policy called “metering.”
This since-rescinded immigration practice gives border officials the authority to turn away migrants before they cross the U.S.-Mexico border and prevent them from making an asylum claim.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a point of delivering her dissenting opinion from the bench, warning that “more people will die” because of this ruling.
Her bench remarks elicited a rare terse response from the majority opinion’s author, Justice Samuel Alito, who remarked that he “would have added” more to his original statement if he had known that Sotomayor would read her full dissent aloud.
Jackson, the White House’s spokesperson, commended the majority’s opinion in this case.
“President Trump remains committed to lawfully restoring integrity to our immigration system, which includes tackling the egregious abuses to our asylum system that the prior administration encouraged,” Jackson said. “We will always put the American people first.”
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