Trump Argues Supreme Court Has ‘No Role’ in Limiting Deportations
United States President Donald Trump is arguing that the courts have “no role” in determining immigration claims during his latest Supreme Court case.
The Trump administration has made immigration crackdowns one of the hallmarks of the second term he’s had in the White House. As a result, lots of judicial challenges have been lobbied at the current administration as they use questionable means to enact these deportations.
Sometimes it looks like ICE kidnapping people off the street, or ambushing them at the courthouse as they try to comply with the legal process. Either way, Trump’s edict is plain to understand for anyone paying attention. He and the rest of the administration want as many Black and Brown people to get caught up in this net as possible. Normal protocols for immigration are at risk.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson recently argued for the administration. “Temporary Protected Status is, by definition, temporary,” She said. “It was never intended to be a pathway to permanent status or legal residency, no matter how badly left-wing organizations want it to be,”
And, while the administration might believe that, legal procedure still governs the United States of America. Or at least it should. When it comes to this current ruling for the 14th Amendment, the Supreme Court seems unlikely to overturn their precedent this time around.
Annoyed observers note that the government is attacking their rights. The government gave these rules to them previously. Now, these folks are subject to the whims of people who are not even elected by the populace.
Trump Administration argues to keep deporting people
In essence, the Trump Justice Department argues that current Temporary Protected Status individuals were never intended to have lengthy stays in the United States of America. President Barack Obama extended the TPS exception to Haitians after earthquakes in the Twenty Tens. This protection would also apply to Syrian refugees in 2012. The United States has extended those statuses as crises continue to pop up in both regions.
But, with this new Trump edict about limiting immigration, you can see how the current administration would want to get rid of those exceptions. Despite the fact that the United States plays a role in the destabilization of both countries historically. This is part and parcel of how US foreign policy has functioned in the Trump years.
There is one big problem with the Trump administration trying to act in a sweeping manner against these people protected by TPS. This current lawsuit brought by Syrian and Haitian individuals argues that former Trump administration official Kristi Noem Didn’t act within the law in consulting other federal agencies before revoking the protected status Syria and Haiti enjoy.
Meanwhile, the administration is arguing that a simple email constitutes an end to those designations. That would represent an entirely different can of worms for the legal system as it operates in the second Trump era.
Will immigration change as a part of this ruling on the 14th amendment?
Despite a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, even Trump’s additions seemed skeptical at best with the government’s arguments to change the 14th amendment. (But, let us be clear, that doesn’t mean the compromised members of the court won’t go along with their ideological allies when the time comes.)
It’s more a measure of the national climate when it comes to a large swath of the president’s agenda. Gas prices and grocery prices have surged heading into summer. Couple that with a lingering war with Iran, and that’s how we got here.
Now, the people who immigrated here in search of a better life find themselves in limbo once again. When the law itself is pretty clear on their status.
(featured image: The White House)
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