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Supreme Court rules Trump may end TPS for Haitians, Syrians, affecting 1.3 million

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  • The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that federal courts lack jurisdiction to review most non-constitutional challenges to the termination of Temporary Protected Status, according to the June 25 decision.
  • Megan Hauptman, an attorney with the International Refugee Assistance Project, said the decision means courts cannot review even clearly unlawful actions by the administration when ending TPS for a country.
  • The ruling immediately puts at risk the legal status of more than 350,000 Haitian and 6,000 Syrian refugees, with broader implications for roughly 1.3 million TPS holders from 17 countries.
  • The court rejected a claim that racial animus motivated the Trump administration's TPS decision, raising the standard for proving discrimination in immigration policy, according to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council.
 2026-07-10 · 4 MIN READ

Rubio deports Minnesota man pardoned for child sex abuse

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  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked the legal status of Tou Lue Vang, a Laotian man pardoned by Minnesota officials in June, and announced his deportation to Laos on Friday.
  • Vang, who came to the U.S. in 1994, was convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct for raping a young girl between 2002 and 2004.
  • The Minnesota Board of Pardons granted Vang a pardon in June after the victim wrote a letter saying she had forgiven him and that he had changed.
  • The Department of Homeland Security called the pardon "disgusting," and Republican lawmakers including Rep. Tom Emmer criticized the state decision.
 2026-07-10 · 3 MIN READ
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