Supreme Court appears to lean toward ending TPS for some migrants

The U.S. Supreme Court Roberto Schmidt/ hide caption toggle caption Roberto Schmidt/ The Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready Wednesday to allow the Trump administration to potentially proceed with mass deportations of more than a million foreign nationals, including those from Haiti and Syria, who live and work legally in the United States. Until now these individuals have been accorded temporary legal status because their safety is imperiled by war or natural disasters in their home countries. Congress enacted the Temporary Protected Status program in 1990, and every president since then — Republican and Democrat — has embraced TPS. President Trump, however, is trying to end it. On Wednesday his solicitor general, D. John Sauer, told the justices that the statute clearly bars any court review of the administration's decisions. And he dismissed the idea that a separate law established to provide procedural fairness does not allow the courts to review the Homeland Security agency's decision-making either. Pressed by the court's three liberal justices, Sauer insisted that the courts cannot review anything. "None of those procedural steps required by the statue are reviewable. That's your position?" asked Justice Sonia Sotomayor. "Correct," responded Sauer. "What you're basically saying is that Congress wrote a statute for no purpose," Sotomayor said. …