This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Thursday, April 30th.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court indicated it will back President Donald Trump's push to end temporary protection status

for millions of people who received TPS status from countries enduring war and natural disasters.

That's according to an analysis from CNN and Reuters.

The two class action lawsuits before the justices involve more than 350,000 Haitians and about 6,000 Syrians

whom the Trump administration has sought to deport from the United States.

And one of the central questions in those cases is whether the Department of Homeland Security

sufficiently considered conditions on the ground in those two countries before it

moved ahead with terminating those designations. The attorneys representing the TPS recipients

said the Trump administration did not and is potentially sending back these people to dangerous

conditions. While the cases represent Haitians and Syrians specifically, more than one million

immigrants are permitted to live and work in the United States under the program. Yesterday,

Brian spoke with Yale Law Professor Emily Bazlan about the judicial considerations before the

court as the hearing was underway. Today, we'll talk about

the politics, both on the ground in Syria and Haiti and here in the United States. Joining me now

are two guests from the International Rescue Committee, a leading humanitarian nonprofit organization.

Kieran Donnelly is Senior Vice President for International Programs at International

Rescue Committee, and Daniel Berlin is Policy Director of Protection Pathways at the International

Rescue Committee. Karen, welcome back to WMYC and Daniel, welcome.

Thanks, Amina. Great to be here. So let's begin with a little TPS 101.

Temporary protected status was created by Congress through the Immigration Act of 1990,

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