Who Will Speak Up for Black and Muslim Migrants?
Julie Roginsky
A few days ago, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Trump administration can strip legal protections from approximately 330,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians who have been living and working legally in the United States — some of them for more than a decade. The ruling in Mullin v. Doe clears the way for mass deportation to two countries that the United States government itself has documented as extraordinarily dangerous.
The threat to the lives of these migrants is not hypothetical. Four Haitian women who were deported in February were beheaded and dumped in a river several months later, according to court documents filed in this very case. Gangs control at least 85 percent of Port-au-Prince. More than 5,600 people were killed in Haiti in 2024 alone.
Syria, meanwhile, remains what the UN’s top humanitarian official called “one of the largest humanitarian emergencies globally” — a country where over 70 percent of the population needs humanitarian aid and seven million people are internally displaced. The lawyers who argued this case before the Supreme Court put it plainly: “The Supreme Court’s ruling will directly result in thousands of innocent people dying violent, needless deaths.”
The history books will record this as one of the darkest, most shameful moments in a national history that is full of dark and shameful moments. The court’s decision clearing the way for Donald Trump to strip protections from Haitians and Syrians effectively strengthens his hand as he dismantles TPS for Afghans who fled for the lives and now face the threat of being sent back to a country where the Taliban is thirsting for vengeance. It builds upon a decision last year allowing the revocation of similar protection for Venezuelan migrants, though the United States later said that Venezuela was so dangerous that it necessitated the removal of its president. This is how the United States mocks the principles enshrined on the base of the Statue of Liberty.
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