‘The Trump administration wants to deport hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents to dangerous countries. And the Supreme Court’s MAGA major­ity just gave its blessing. On June 25, the Supreme Court paved the way for the Trump administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from 350,000 migrants from Haiti and over 6,000 from Syria. TPS is a legal status given to migrants from countries the U.S. government agrees are too dangerous to return to. Haiti and Syria certainly fit the de­scription. The State Depart­ment warns Americans against traveling to Syria and Haiti “for any reason” due to the risk of crime, terrorism, kidnapping, unrest, hostage taking, and armed conflict. Yet the court’s conserva­tive majority ruled that courts are prohibited from reviewing whether the administration fol­lowed the law in revoking TPS. The “decision that country con­ditions in Syria and Haiti jus­tified termination of their TPS designations” is exempt from any form of judicial review, the justices claimed. Interestingly, the Supreme Court did not rule that the ad­ministration followed the law, or that conditions in these coun­tries were safe. It simply ruled that these decisions couldn’t be challenged. The court also rejected the plaintiffs’ claim that terminat­ing TPS for Haitians was ra­cially motivated. For the court’s conservatives, none of Presi­dent Trump’s past remarks — which include the lie Haitians are “eating the dogs,” “probably have AIDS,” and that Haiti is a “s—hole country” — were “overtly racial.” Effectively, the Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration the power to unilaterally end TPS for any group at any time for any rea­son, no matter how prejudiced or flawed. While this immediately im­pacts Haitians and Syrians, it puts the lives of everyone with TPS at risk. This includes peo­ple from active warzones like Ukraine, Sudan, and Lebanon. The only hope for these people is that Congress will intervene on their behalf. Fortunately, even some Re­publicans understand the grav­ity of this situation. Ohio Gov­ernor Mike DeWine has called the ruling a “mistake.” DeW­ine warned, “If [Haitians] lose temporary protected status and they no longer can work and the companies can’t employ them, that’s a blow to the economy, that’s a blow to the state.” Ohio is home to a large Haitian mi­grant population. Representative Mike Lawler (R-NY) claimed that the deci­sion will “create a crisis in our hospitals, nursing, and in the I/DD [intellectual and develop­mental disabilities] communi­ty” where roughly one-third of Haitian TPS holders work. He called on the Senate to pass his bipartisan bill to extend TPS for Haitians “to address these issues.” That bill passed the House earlier this year. For all of Trump’s bigotry, mi­grants remain an indispensable part of the U.S. economy. But beyond these economic consid­erations, the U.S. has a moral duty to these people — because the dire conditions in many of these countries are the direct result of America’s foreign pol­icy. Decades of U.S. sanctions and military intervention in Syria helped foment the politi­cal and economic instability in the region. Haiti endured years of U.S. colonial occupation and continues to face repeated at­tempts by our government to undermine their elections and democracy. TPS is not simply humanitar­ian aid. It is a form of repara­tions for those who’ve suffered the consequences of U.S. foreign policy. Deliberately sending vulner­able, law-abiding people — ma­ny of whom have spent decades here — to countries this admin­istration knows are unsafe is nothing less than issuing their death sentences. These people should not be made to suffer and die to satisfy this admin­istration’s xenophobia and rac­ism. The sheer indifference to­wards life displayed by the Su­preme Court and the Trump administration betray every principle upon which this na­tion was founded. While there is still time, Congress must en­act extensions to protect TPS recipients. Jordan Liz is an Associate Pro­fessor of Philosophy at San José State University. He specializes in issues of race, immigration, and the politics of belonging. This op-ed was distributed by OtherWords.org.