"You belong here": Unions rally for migrants hit by SCOTUS ruling

(Salon) Within hours of the Supreme Court stripping 330,000 Haitian immigrants of their temporary protective status, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries, Service Employees International Union 1199 President Yvonne Armstrong had assembled at the union’s headquarters to denounce the high court’s ruling as racist and immoral. She was joined by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, as well as several other elected officials. Racist comments that President Donald Trump has made about immigrants surfaced in the Supreme Court’s deliberation but were dismissed by the majority as not being overtly racist.

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done. They poison — mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America,” Trump told a New Hampshire rally in 2023. “Not just the three or four countries that we think about. But all over the world they’re coming into our country — from Africa, from Asia, all over the world. They’re pouring into our country.”

The 6-3 ruling also included the revocation of TPS for 6,000 Syrians.

The State Department advises Americans not to travel to both Syria and Haiti “due to significant security risks.”

The Supreme Court decision also has major implications for over one million U.S. residents from 15 other countries that were granted temporary residency under the 1990 law that extended TPS status if someone’s country of origin was mired in armed conflict, affected by a natural disaster or epidemic, as well as any other extraordinary condition. .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/06/30/you-belong-here-unions-blast-scotus-anti-immigrant-ruling/