“The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians recklessly empowers a federal government that has repeatedly and thoughtlessly endangered countless lives. Somehow, the Supreme Court refused to see the racism deployed against a nation that Donald Trump called a ‘shithole country.’
“As I have said, the Trump administration’s goal is to make as many Black and brown people as possible eligible for deportation, to erase the immigrant communities from this country that their work, culture, and sacrifice have helped to shape. This ruling is the next phase of that effort, and threatens the safety of hundreds and thousands of people, already fleeing danger – some of which has been perpetuated by our government’s actions.
“Our institutions are at best ill-equipped to meet and at worst complicit in this administration’s white nationalist agenda. The strength and strategy to combat it has to come from the people, and I know that our city and my office will continue to support immigrant New Yorkers of all statuses. In solidarity, we will fight for our neighbors’ rights and safety. L'union fait la force.”