Elora Mukherjee in NYT: ‘On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration sweeping power to remove the legal right to live in America for Haitians and Syrians who are here under a program known as Temporary Protected Status. For more than three decades, T.P.S. enabled highly vetted immigrants from countries ravaged by war or natural disaster to remain in America.’

And: ‘After Thursday’s decision, some one million T.P.S. holders — out of nearly 1.3 million people who hold T.P.S. protections — are at risk of immediate arrest, detention and deportation.’

Also: ‘On April 16, the House passed legislation to extend Haiti’s T.P.S. designation with a bipartisan vote. But getting the legislation through the Senate, then signed into law by the president, would require cooperation we don’t see on the Hill these days.’

No cooperation on the Hill, no future for one million people in the US. Syrians, Haitians: lesser gods.

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