In a shocking turn of events, the six right wing members of the Supreme Court abandoned the Statue of Liberty image of welcoming immigrants, a basic premise of the American historical tradition, and have allowed the Trump Administration to prevent asylum for 1.3 million people wishing for a better life, and wishing to escape persecution, bloodshed and war in other nations.
Most specifically, the Court’s 6-3 decision in Mullin V Doe will end TPS (Temporary Protected Status) and lead to Haitians and Syrians being forced out of America, people who have not committed crimes, and have established a life of decency and accomplishment in America. Also, nationals from about 10 other nations will eventually face deportation as well.
This will undermine the economy, causing a labor shortage in senior care institutions, hospitals, construction, hotels, agriculture, and many other fields of work, and it is purely based on racism, since Donald Trump is a pure white supremacist, who promotes cruelty and death as his agenda!
The Supreme Court and Donald Trump will carry the shame of future deaths of returned migrants to dangerous nations as part of their historical record, a blot on their reputations, but clearly they have no concern for basic human rights.
The poet Emma Lazarus wrote the famous poem “The New Colossus”, about the Statue of Liberty–“Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning To Be Free”, now being repudiated by the majority of the Supreme Court and the Trump Administration.
It is a shame long term on the American historical tradition of freedom and opportunity.