President Donald Trump in the Oval Office is shown alongside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
Left: President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 16, 2026. Right: The Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. (Jonathan Ernst, Will Dunham/Reuters)

Trump’s immigration policies may play hardball, but in two cases, the Court found that the plain meaning of the law written by Congress is on his side.

The Supreme Court this morning, in a pair of 6–3 opinions written by Justice Samuel Alito, gave the Trump administration’s border policies two more big wins. Both pared back humanitarian bases for admitting people into the country. Mullin v. Doe allowed the administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations granted by the Biden administration — specifically for Haitians and Syrians, but the decision’s logic, which bars judicial review of revocations, would seem to compel the same outcome for Venezuelans. Mullin v. Al Otro Lado allowed immigration officials to prevent people from reaching the border to present asylum claims, because ...

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