Megyn Kelly has reacted to the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing the Department of Homeland Security to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syrian and Haitian immigrants.
After the Supreme Court ruled last week in a 6-3 decision that President Donald Trump‘s administration could end TPS status — which allows certain citizens to be protected from deportation — the 55-year-old commentator shared her views on the Thursday, June 25, edition of The Megyn Kelly Show.
“This decision clears the way for the admin to deport about 350,000 Haitians and over 6,000 Syrians and is likely to have implications for the approximately 1 million individuals living in the U.S. under TPS from other countries,” Kelly explained.
Kelly explained that the Obama administration granted Haitians TPS in 2010 “due to the country’s devastating earthquake,” and Syrians received it in 2012 “because of the country’s civil war.”
However, she added, “Cry me a river! We have our own problems.”
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“Go home. Get out,” she said of those people living in the United States under TPS. “We know our country is better than yours. That’s because we filled it with our work ethic and our culture and our values.”
“You being here only dilutes it for us, those who built it and live it,” she said. “And half of you people — more than half of you — won’t assimilate. We don’t want you. We don’t care if you’re offended. Get out. Go home. Go back to [expletive] Haiti!”
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told The Hill that the Supreme Court’s decision was a “tremendous win” for the Trump administration.
“Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what President Trump has always maintained: temporary protected status is, by definition, temporary,” Jackson said.
“It was never intended to be a pathway to permanent status or legal residency and it is committed to the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security,” Jackson added. “The Trump administration continues to lawfully end the egregious abuses to our immigration system that have hurt Americans for years.”