Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protections for Syrians and Haitians

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for President Donald Trump's administration to strip hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants of a humanitarian status that protects them from deportation, giving another boost to his hardline approach toward immigration. The court in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative justices overturned decisions by federal judges in New York and Washington, D.C., that had halted the administration's actions terminating Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for more than 350,000 people from Haiti and 6,100 from Syria. The court's three liberal justices dissented. The State Department currently warns against traveling to either Haiti or Syria, citing widespread violence, crime, terrorism and kidnapping. TPS is a designation that allows migrants from countries stricken by war, natural disaster or other catastrophes to live and work in the United States while it is unsafe for them to return to their home countries. The United States first provided TPS to Haitians after a major earthquake in 2010 and to Syrians after their country descended into civil war in 2012. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the ruling, wrote that courts cannot review the administration's decisions concerning TPS, a decision that could doom legal challenges going forward on revocation of this status for any country. The law governing TPS "plainly bars" such judicial review, Alito wrote. …