Kagan's Dissent Quotes Trump's Past Remarks on Haitians

Justice Elena Kagan quoted several controversial statements made by President Donald Trump about Haitians in a strongly worded dissent after the Supreme Court allowed the administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of migrants, HuffPost reported.

Justice Elena Kagan issued a strongly worded dissent in a Supreme Court ruling involving Temporary Protected Status.

In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court allowed the Department of Homeland Security to terminate TPS protections for approximately 350,000 migrants from Haiti and Syria.

Writing for the court's three liberal justices in Mullin v. Doe, Kagan criticized the majority for declining to include Trump's past statements in its opinion.

"The evidence they have offered includes statements by the President so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print," Kagan wrote.

Her dissent quoted several of Trump's past remarks, including references to Haitians "probably have AIDS," Haiti being a "shithole" country, claims that immigrants were "poisoning the blood" of America, and describing Haitian immigration as "like a death wish for our country."