President Trump’s Supreme Court victory on immigration is already producing sequels.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals cleared away two more legal obstacles Wednesday, allowing the administration to move ahead with ending Temporary Protected Status for migrants from Ethiopia and South Sudan.
This time, the White House didn’t need to win a new argument. The Supreme Court had largely done the work already.
U.S. District Judges Brian Murphy and Patti Saris had issued separate orders temporarily keeping the two TPS programs alive. But those rulings collided with the Supreme Court’s June decision in Mullin v. Doe, which sharply limited the kinds of challenges courts can hear when a Homeland Security secretary ends a country’s designation.
The First Circuit’s response was essentially: The justices have spoken.
“Mullin held that ‘the TPS statute’s judicial-review bar applies to all non-constitutional claims’” challenging a TPS termination, the appellate judges wrote in nearly identical decisions.
That left the two district-court orders with nowhere to go.
There was also an awkward political detail for the administration’s critics. Two judges on the three-member appellate panel, Julie Rikelman and Seth Aframe, were appointed by former President Joe Biden. The third, Joshua Dunlap, was appointed by Trump.
All three reached the same destination.
TPS gives eligible migrants permission to live and work in the United States when war, natural disasters or other dangerous conditions make returning to their home countries unsafe. The program’s name contains the administration’s entire argument: The protection is supposed to be temporary.
“Temporary Protected Status is exactly that, temporary,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
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