The nation’s highest court delivered two very different rulings on immigration over the past month, and Miami-Dade — where more than half of residents are foreign-born — will feel both outcomes acutely. One ruling threatens to uproot hundreds of thousands of Haitians who call South Florida home; the other narrowly spared a generation of babies from potentially being born stateless on U.S. soil.
Here are key takeaways:
The U.S. House already passed a bipartisan resolution extending Haiti’s TPS through 2029, but the measure has stalled in the Senate — and Florida Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody are conspicuously absent from the list of co-sponsors.
In her dissent on the TPS case, Justice Elena Kagan pointed out how Trump’s decision was probably racially motivated, with statements “so repellent and racially inflected” that the conservative majority declined to write them in their opinion, including his infamous “shithole countries” remark about Haiti.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion joined by Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett and the court’s three liberals, reaffirming the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of automatic citizenship for those born on American soil.
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