The Supreme Court on Friday gave convicted felon President Trump’s regime the green light to move toward deporting half a million Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian refugees. The decision was not the final word but things are definitely moving in the wrong direction for these people.
“The Court has plainly botched this assessment today. It requires next to nothing from the Government with respect to irreparable harm. And it undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the Government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending. Even if the Government is likely to win on the merits, in our legal system, success takes time and the stay standards require more than anticipated victory. I would have denied the Government’s application because its harm-related showing is patently insufficient. The balance of the equities also weighs heavily in respondents’ favor. While it is apparent that the Government seeks a stay to enable it to inflict maximum predecision damage, court-ordered stays exist to minimize – not maximize – harm to litigating parties,” wrote Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent, warning that these people are vulnerable to deportation now while a final decision on the matter takes however goddamned long it’s going to take.