The US supreme court just put the lives of 1.3 million immigrants in danger

On Thursday, the US supreme court authorized the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS), facilitating the largest single assault on immigrants in contemporary United States history.

While the case concerned the 350,000 Haitian and 6,000 Syrian holders of this status, the decision could expose more than 1.3 million people to potential deportation to countries that the United States has recognized as unsafe.

This act is the cruelest component of a growing strategy in the Trump administration’s ethnic cleansing agenda, one that is increasingly being facilitated by a conservative supreme court – the cancelling of statuses that were once legal.