The Supreme Court just did a whole lot of families dirty. In a 6-to-3 vote that went straight down party lines, the conservative majority on the high court gave the Trump administration the green light to start mass deportations of people who have been living and working here legally for decades. They ruled that the President has absolute, unchecked power to kill the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, and there is absolutely nothing the courts can do to stop it.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, basically saying that under the 1990 TPS law, the president has "unreviewable authority" to end the program. That means if the administration decides you gotta go, you can't even take them to court to fight it. It's a cold-blooded ruling that is going to tear apart communities that have been putting in work and building lives here for a long, long time.

Congress set up this TPS law back in 1990 to give shelter to fully vetted people who couldn't go back to their home countries because of wars, earthquakes, or other crazy disasters. Every single president since then—whether they were rocking with the red or the blue—respected the program and kept it going. But Trump is different. He's been trying to shut down the whole program for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, and now the Supreme Court just handed him the keys to do it.

This decision is hitting the Haitian and Syrian communities hard. We're talking about 330,000 Haitians and about 3,800 Syrians who are legally living in the U.S. right now. Now, they are about to lose their legal status, lose their jobs, and face getting deported. What makes it even crazier is that many of these folks are going to have to leave their American-born children behind because their kids are U.S. citizens.

And don't act like it's safe for them to go back. Even the U.S. State Department tells Americans in the strongest terms not to travel to Haiti or Syria because of extreme violence, kidnapping, terrorism, and trash healthcare systems. But the system is telling these legal residents they have to go back anyway. Trump already tried to strip TPS from 13 out of 17 countries, and the remaining four—El Salvador, Lebanon, Sudan, and Ukraine—are probably next on the chopping block when they come up for renewal this fall.

The three liberal justices on the court dissented, but they didn't have the numbers. Activist groups are furious because they know how much this is going to hurt everyday people. Todd Schulte from FWD.us kept it 100, saying that revoking these protections is "not just cruel; it is economic self-sabotage" that is going to rip billions out of the economy and mess up neighborhoods nationwide.