Supreme Court hears Trump’s bid to curtail deportation protection program

The Supreme Court will weigh the Trump administration’s efforts to curtail temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of noncitizens on Wednesday. 

The oral arguments put the justices at the center of another key plank of President Trump’s immigration crackdown: scaling back the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. 

Created in 1990, TPS temporarily protects foreign nationals who cannot safely return to their home countries because of armed conflict, natural disaster or other extraordinary conditions. It prevents deportation and provides recipients with a pathway to work authorization.  

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) looked to terminate TPS for 13 of the 17 designated countries when the president retook office, arguing the countries no longer meet the criteria. The others are set to expire soon. 

Solicitor General D. John Sauer, representing the administration, will tell the justices that lower judges had no power to intervene when they blocked many of the terminations.  

“That is the opposite of what Congress prescribed by barring judicial........

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