Is the Dark Lord even human? Supremes kiss the ring yesterday?

I woke up this morning and it finally occurred to me, the guy never loses. I wonder if he's made a deal with the the Devil (ergo himself)?

No, that doesn't make sense?

Supreme Court Gives Trump New Tools to Accelerate Deportations

Although justices strike down executive order curtailing birthright citizenship, courts give president other ways to pursue immigration crackdown

By Michelle Hackman, Marianne LeVine and Louise Radnofsky, WSJ

June 30, 2026 9:00 pm ET

President Trump secured court victories expanding deportation powers, including a Supreme Court ruling on Temporary Protected Status.

WASHINGTON—Despite President Trump’s defeat at the Supreme Court in his bid to limit birthright citizenship, he has notched several recent court victories that are expected to turbocharge his deportation efforts.

Perhaps most vulnerable are hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. under what is known as Temporary Protected Status, after a 6-3 decision from the high court that judges have little power to review the executive branch’s decisions about the program.

Trump has railed against Haitians, and administration officials are in discussions about how to target these immigrants who are now eligible for deportation, according to people familiar with the matter.

The goal is to do so without causing a public backlash, the people said. Rather than sending a flood of immigration agents to cities with large Haitian populations, such as Springfield, Ohio, they plan to rely on data and targeting tools, the people said, who warned discussions are still in early stages.

The Supreme Court’s decision means the administration can immediately terminate TPS benefits for about 350,000 people from Haiti, as well as 6,000 people from Syria. But the decision also paved the way for the administration to end benefits for people from at least 11 other countries—meaning that protections could be stripped from as many as one million immigrants in all.

People at a candlelight vigil for Haitians living in the US under Temporary Protected Status.

A candlelight vigil in Miami in February for Haitians living in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status immigration program. Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Images

In addition, an appeals court ruled last week that the administration could move forward with a process known as expedited removal, which allows the government to fast-track deportations without court hearings for immigrants who can’t prove they have lived in the U.S. for longer than two years. Up to 622,000 people could be targeted using that tool, according to an estimate from the Migration Policy Institute.

Taken together, the courts’ moves expand the universe of people the administration can now target for deportation, as the White House comes under pressure to increase numbers to fulfill Trump’s central campaign promise.

“To achieve mass deportations, you need to focus on quantity,” said Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, an outside conservative group that is monitoring deportations and trying to keep them on track. “It’s time to move away from the ‘worst of the worst’ focus and broaden the aperture. They need to get the numbers up.”

A representative for the Department of Homeland Security said: “For the safety of our law enforcement, we do not discuss future or potential operations.”

The administration has been walking a tightrope for several months, hoping to avoid a repeat performance of its deadly operation in Minneapolis, while also trying to assure supporters on the right that it hasn’t abandoned one of its top policy priorities. Even Stephen Miller, the hard-line architect of Trump’s immigration actions, has privately agreed in meetings that the administration needs to find an approach to target the Haitians that doesn’t include headline-grabbing raids, according to a person familiar with his thinking.

For his part, the president has signaled that he is more willing to lean in to a hard-line immigration message, even though he earlier this year sought to lower the profile of his mass-deportation effort.

Trump recently boasted about his arrest and deportation numbers on his Truth Social platform but said he was “not necessarily thrilled to be talking about it because it does not exactly sound NICE.” He has complained that he wants to publicize low border numbers but that his advisers have suggested voters were indifferent. About 52% of voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of immigration, while 44% approve, according to a polling aggregate from Cook Political Report.

“I wanted to speak about the great job I’ve done on the border, and my people said, ‘Sir, nobody cares about that’,” Trump told reporters in June. “I said, ‘what do you mean? I got elected on that, twice.’”

Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, said that Trump remains “committed to fulfilling the immigration-enforcement agenda he was elected to enact” and that his deportation efforts will increase with new funding from Congress and the recent court victories.

Trump has said little about his recent court victories on immigration, but he has touted the Supreme Court’s ruling that gave him broad latitude to oust leaders of policymaking agencies. He also suggested Congress could make up for his loss on birthright citizenship by passing legislation. The Justice Department said Tuesday it would give priority to prosecutions of “actors seeking to exploit loopholes to obtain automatic citizenship for their children.”

Miller praised the TPS ruling, describing it as a decade in the making. “Millions of illegal immigrants from Haiti, who were previously beyond the reach of the law, are now within the reach of the law,” he said.

Department of Homeland Security general counsel James Percival had a ready quip on Friday when asked on Fox News if the administration was considering any kind of grace period in responding to the ruling.

“These people have been on notice for nine years that this day is coming,” said Percival. “So, what we would say now is it’s closing time, which means you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”

Deporting potentially hundreds of thousands of Haitians, some of whom have been covered by the program since 2010, risks putting DHS back in the headlines as TPS holders and their allies try to draw attention to their plight.

“Families have started asking us questions that we are not able to answer. It is the saddest day of my life,” said Viles Dorsainvil, co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Support Center, who is himself a Haitian TPS holder.