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WASHINGTON — Democrats erupted over the Supreme Court for handing dueling victories to the Trump administration on two major immigration cases, with some pushing to expand the bench.
The high court ruled that the Trump administration could yank temporary protective status (TPS) away from thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants, and in a separate case, cleared the way for the turning away of migrants who show up at the US-Mexico border before they apply for asylum.
“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,” Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) fumed.
“We must demand better of our country and its leaders, and we must turn up the volume in the streets, in the courts, and in Congress, because today is a moment to stand up and to fight back.”
TPS allows migrants to stay in the US with deportation protection and the ability to pursue work authorization.
Justices in the conservative majority had simply ruled that President Trump had the authority based on the statutes Congress had written.
With Haitian and Syrian migrants, for example, justices in the conservative majority zeroed in on how the statute behind TPS stipulated there could be “no judicial review of any determination … with respect to the … termination’ of a TPS designation.”
Still, Democrats blamed the Supreme Court for allowing Trump to yank TPS for thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants, clearing the way for their deportation.
“The far-right MAGA majority on the Court cannot stand,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) raged on X. “We need to win back the House and the Senate and expand the Court.”
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for over a million TPS holders. The far-right MAGA majority on the Court cannot stand.
We need to win back the House and the Senate and expand the Court.
His former primary foe, whom he bested in May, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), demanded Democrats “reform the court to preserve our rights and protect TPS families.”
Rep. Laura Gillen (D-NY) panned the decision as “cruel” and “un-American.”
“This flies in the face of the administration’s own designation of Haiti as a maximum travel risk,” she added. “The Supreme Court’s cruel and harmful decision to end TPS for the hardworking law-abiding Haitians in this country now puts our friends and our neighbors’ lives at risk.”
She touted Democrat-backed legislation to extend TPS protections for Haitian migrants.
Fellow New York Rep. Mike Lawyer (R) had also torn into the Trump administration’s move to pull TPS from Haitian migrants, though he never disputed that the president had the authority to do so, which was the issue before the Supreme Court.
Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) blasted the decision as a “total betrayal of our nation’s commitment and values.”
“This is no longer a Supreme Court. This is a rubber stamp, that’s all it is. It’s a rubber stamp for this crooked president,” Vargas chided.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) vowed to “continue to stand up against the overreach of Trump’s reckless deportation agenda.”
“Haiti is in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe,” she declared in a statement. “This decision betrays families who followed the law, built lives here, and sought refuge from unimaginable violence. The Haitian community is part of the fabric of New York.”
Haiti is in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe.
This decision betrays families who followed the law, built lives here, and sought refuge from unimaginable violence.
The Haitian community is part of the fabric of New York, and I’ll continue to stand up against the overreach… https://t.co/no6dVDIiEY
The Supreme Court still has several major cases outstanding this term and is set to have another opinion day next Monday.
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