White House celebrates Supreme Court immigration rulings as ‘tremendous win’

The White House commended two major decisions from the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, which bolster the Trump administration’s ability to crack down on immigration. 

In these rulings, the high court decided that the Trump administration could cut off temporary legal protections for thousands of Haitians and Syrians and cleared the path for the administration to revive a controversial policy for asylum seekers. 

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson called the Supreme Court’s decision in each case a “tremendous win” for the Trump administration in statements to The Hill on Thursday afternoon.

The court’s 6-3 decision on temporary legal protections affirmed the administration’s ability to remove Haiti and Syria from the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) list, which allows citizens of designated countries to be protected from deportation and creates a path to work authorization. 

“Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what President Trump has always maintained: temporary protected status is, by definition, temporary,” Jackson said in a statement about the TPS ruling.

“It was never intended to be a pathway to permanent status or legal residency and it is committed to........

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