From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrow-F.

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In two polarized six-three decisions on Thursday, the Supreme Court delivered big wins for President Trump's immigration agenda,

closing off yet another path to seek legal status in the U.S., and potentially setting the

stage for hundreds of thousands of people to be deported.

Today, my colleague Hamid Ali Aziz on how those rulings have given Trump new tools to reshape immigration in America.

It's Friday, June 26th.

Hamid, welcome back to The Daily. Thank you for having me.

We're going to talk about the specifics of these two new decisions from the Supreme Court.

One of them addresses temporary protected status, TPS for immigrants, and the other involves

claims of asylum.

But before we do that, can you just start by putting

these rulings into context for me? How important are they to the Trump administration's

immigration agenda? Yeah, they're very important. These are major victories for the Trump

administration, in particular when it comes to this ruling on TPS. I mean, this is something

that has been a priority of the Trump administration of Stephen Miller to unwind these protections

for nearly a decade now. And every time they try to cut back these rulings affecting hundreds of thousands of people,

they were stymied by the federal courts.

And so today really is a culmination of that effort in which the Supreme Court is essentially saying that this is the decision of the president and the Department of Homeland Security.

Okay. So if we're going to look at these rulings one by one, it sounds like we should start with the TPS order.

So first, just remind us what TPS is, actually, what this case centers on.

Yeah, temporary protected status really is as the phrase is defined. I mean, this is a program

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