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President Trump’s decade-long project to end deportation amnesties for a large swath of countries has finally come to fruition, after battling from district courts up to the Supreme Court and back down again.
Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee who had been the last holdout, issued an order Tuesday ending his blockade and allowing the Department of Homeland Security to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopians.
They now join a dozen other nations, including Afghanistan, Haiti, Nepal and Nicaragua, that have seen their TPS programs lapse, a month and a half after the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead.
The result is that roughly 1 million migrants who had deportation amnesty are no longer protected.
DHS celebrated with a warning: “Those with terminated TPS should leave NOW. If they don’t, we will DEPORT them.”
TPS grants a stay of deportation and some other benefits, such as the right to compete for jobs and obtain driver’s licenses.
It’s supposed to be granted to citizens of countries that face war, pandemic, instability or natural disasters. It gives the countries breathing space to recover without having to face an influx of people and gives those people a short-term safe haven.
The Biden administration set records for granting TPS, adding 1 million people to the enrollments.
Mr. Trump tried to end some TPS grants in his first term but was blocked by the courts. He tried again starting last year and again met with near-universal resistance from lower federal judges, who accused the president of racist motives in rolling back TPS.
But the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling in late June, said those lower courts largely lacked authority to police decisions about TPS. The one area where judges could intervene was on major constitutional rights questions — but the high court specifically rejected the notion that the Trump team was acting on racist motives.
“None of the cited statements by either the president or [then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem] was overtly racial, and in substance all expressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justifications,” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for the majority.
Even after that ruling, lower courts held out, giving TPS advocates a chance to mount last-ditch arguments.
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