Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Protections for Syrian Migrants

The president has sought to end the program, known as Temporary Protected Status, for various migrants as part of his mass deportation efforts.A destroyed mosque in Darayya, near Damascus, last year. The U.S. government initially put protections in place for migrants from Syria in 2012, citing the “extraordinary and temporary conditions” in the country resulting from “a brutal crackdown” by former President Bashar al-Assad.