Supreme Court weighs Trump attempt to remove protections for thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants

Tackling one prong of the Trump administration's hard-line policies, the Supreme Court on Wednesday will weigh its effort to remove legal protections for thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants in the United States.

WASHINGTON — Tackling one prong of the Trump administration's hard-line policies, the Supreme Court on Wednesday will weigh its effort to remove legal protections from thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants in the United States.

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If the administration wins the case, it would be able to continue with its plan to strip temporary protected status, or TPS, from about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. In the meantime, the protections remain in place.

President Donald Trump's administration has sought to revoke TPS for people from other countries too, including El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal and Afghanistan. The Supreme Court ruling could affect litigation pending in lower courts involving countries such as Somalia, Myanmar and Ethiopia.