Haitians face deportation when TPS ends. Here’s what to know

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Haitians face deportation when TPS ends. Here’s what to know

The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Haitian immigrants. But a constitutional challenge alleging racial discrimination remains alive in federal court.

FULL STORY: Haitians can be deported when TPS ends, but still have long shot chance in court

Here are key takeaways:

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in June that the Trump administration’s decision to end TPS for Haitians is not subject to judicial review, but left open a narrow path for immigrants to challenge the move on constitutional grounds.
About 350,000 Haitians are affected, roughly one-third of whom live in Florida. TPS had granted them work permits and deportation protections after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake killed 316,000 people.
Attorney Geoffrey Pipoly, who argued for Haitians before the Supreme Court, said the ruling means the Trump administration can “break the law flagrantly and openly and make no secret of it and the federal courts can’t stop it.”
Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion that the Haitians’ racial-discrimination claim was “unlikely to succeed on the merits” and that statements by President Donald Trump and then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem were not “overtly racial.”
Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson in dissent, wrote that the statements “fairly shout, in their racial undertones and overtones alike, that race entered into the President’s resolve to remove Haitians from this country.”
The State Department warns Americans not to travel to Haiti, where the United Nations estimates gangs control up to 90% of Port-au-Prince and gang violence has killed more than 2,300 people this year.

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