US government asks Supreme Court to allow deportation of Syrian migrants

"The United States Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to allow the administration of President Donald Trump to move forward with plans to terminate deportation protections for 6,000 Syrian migrants living in the country. The department's request on Thursday came in the form of an emergency appeal to the high court, the latest instance of the Trump administration using the tactic."

"The Department of Homeland Security has broadly moved to end TPS, a programme that allows foreign nationals already in the US to remain in the country due to instability or danger in their homelands. TPS has been granted, for instance, in cases of warfare, environmental catastrophe and other disasters. It grants deportation protections and the ability to work in the US."

"While efforts to strip TPS protections have faced setbacks in lower courts, the Trump administration has successfully appealed to the conservative-majority Supreme Court on two previous occasions. Those Supreme Court decisions, one in May and one in October, paved the way for the Trump administration to remove TPS from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals living in the US."

The Trump administration's Department of Justice filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court requesting removal of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for approximately 6,000 Syrian migrants. TPS allows foreign nationals in the US to remain due to instability or danger in their home countries, providing deportation protections and work authorization. The administration argues Syria is no longer unsafe, though critics contend the country remains unstable. This appeal follows the administration's broader effort to terminate TPS for people from 12 countries including Haiti, Myanmar, Somalia, and Yemen. Despite lower court setbacks, the conservative-majority Supreme Court previously approved similar TPS terminations for Venezuelan nationals in May and October decisions.

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