Justice Sonia Sotomayor Suggests DHS Cannot End ‘Temporary’ Amnesty for Haitians Because Trump Called Haiti a ‘Sh**hole Country’

Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested during oral arguments on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may have discriminated against Haitian migrants by ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the United States because President Donald Trump once called Haiti a “shithole country.”

Sotomayor’s suggestion came during oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in the cases Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot where left-wing groups have sued the Trump administration after DHS announced last year that TPS would end for hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants and thousands of Syrian migrants.

While debating Solicitor General John Sauer, representing the Trump administration in the case, Sotomayor brought up the president’s former comments in which he called Haiti a “shithole country.”

“Now, we have a president saying, at one point, that Haiti is a ‘filthy, dirty, and disgusting s-hole country,’ and that he complained that the United