Supreme Court Grants Trump Two Immigration Victories, Enabling Mass Deportations and Asylum Restrictions

The Supreme Court delivered two major victories to the Trump administration's immigration agenda in ideologically split rulings. In a 6-3 decision, the Court allowed the administration to strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from approximately 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians who were legally residing in the U.S. and protected from deportation. In a second ruling (Mullin v. Al Otro Lado), the Court held that migrants turned away at the border before entering the United States are not entitled to apply for asylum, fundamentally reshaping the U.S. asylum system. These decisions could affect millions of immigrants and enable the administration to proceed with mass deportations of people who have been living lawfully in the United States.