The Supreme Court just handed President Trump a landslide victory on immigration.
The Supreme Court ended humanitarian aid programs for immigrants, giving President Donald Trump a landslide victory and leaving families in limbo.
WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin said Sunday, June 28, that immigrants in the United States on Temporary Protected Status should seek permanent residence or leave their home countries.
The remarks on CNN’s “State of the Union” program follow a split Supreme Court ruling last week that allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to strip hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants of their humanitarian status, which protects them from deportation to their conflict- and poverty-stricken home countries.
“Either you write the papers and stay here as a permanent resident, or we can help you return to your country,” Marin said. “In reality, we will provide you with a plane ticket and about $2,100 to help you rebuild your life once you arrive, but according to the court, temporary protected status in its own name is not a permanent status.”
Federal law allows the government to grant temporary legal residence in the United States to people fleeing war, disaster, or other adverse circumstances. This status has been renewed several times before, and despite moves to end these protections, the State Department currently warns against travel to Haiti or Syria due to widespread violence, crime, terrorism, and kidnapping.
The United States first provided TPS to Haitians after the devastating earthquake in 2010 and first provided TPS to Syrians after Syria fell into civil war in 2012.
The prospect of large-scale deportations has also sparked opposition among some Republicans. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine also said on CNN on Sunday, June 28, that it is not safe for Haitians to return and that laying off hardworking workers will negatively impact Ohio’s economy and create a shortage in the health care industry.
During the 2024 campaign, Trump falsely accused Haitians living in Ohio of eating other people’s household pets. But the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that Haitians suing the regime were unlikely to succeed in arguing that the regime’s actions were racially biased.
Reuters reports that the Haitian presence in the state has helped revive the economy of some parts of Ohio that had fallen into post-industrial decline, boosting wages and job creation.
“It’s Haitians who are taking care of your mom or dad who has Alzheimer’s disease or taking care of a family member who might be in a nursing home,” DeWine said. “And it’s just not in our own interest to say we’re going to withdraw all of that.”
(Reporting by Douglas Gillison in Washington; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
