The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation. In a 6-3 decision, the conservative justices overturned lower court orders and allows the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly end temporary protected status, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries. The court held that Syrian and Haitian nationals are not “entitled to orders postponing the terminations during litigation.” Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Kentanji Brown Jackson, the court’s liberal justices, dissented. The high…
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