Legal analysts and scholars are lashing out at the U.S. Supreme Court conservatives after another round of decisions.Taking to social media
Legal analysts and scholars are lashing out at the U.S. Supreme Court conservatives after another round of decisions.
Taking to social media on Thursday morning, commentators trashed one ruling in particular: President Donald Trump's decision to block asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The case concerned the temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian immigrants, which the U.S. had allowed until Trump paused it in 2021. The law states that any noncitizen who is “physically present in the United States” or “arrives in the United States” can apply for asylum. Anyone who announces that they seek protection are entitled to have their claim evaluated, according to the Constitution.
What the High Court did was play on the technicality of the asylum seekers' location.
"The Supreme Court’s rightwing majority rules that courts cannot review the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to terminate temporary protected status for refugees fleeing particularly dangerous countries," complained Kate Riga, who covers the Supreme Court for TPM.
"In effect, this means that thousands of Haitian and Syrian refugees will be sent back to places so dangerous that, in Haiti’s case, the State Department recommends leaving behind dental records to help identify remains," she added before bashing Justice Samuel Alito's ruling, in particular, as "racist."
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie also bashed Alito by paraphrasing the justice.
"Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also, Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country," said Bouie.
Sotomayor offers blistering dissent on Supreme Court asylum decision: ‘More people will die’
Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a blistering dissent from the bench Thursday after the Supreme Court opened the door for the Trump administration to revive an immigration policy that allows border officials to block asylum seekers who do not physically cross the southern border from entering the country.
Sotomayor, the most senior liberal justice on the high court, warned that the decision would leave people fleeing persecution or violence more vulnerable to “dangerous conditions”
“The consequences of today’s decision are predictable,” she read. “More people will die. More people will attempt to cross the border illegally, and some will make it while others will not.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5940732-supreme-court-immigration-policy/
