Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested during oral arguments on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may have discriminated against Haitian immigrants by ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Haitians in the United States because President Donald Trump once called Haiti a “stupid country.”
Sotomayor’s suggestion came during oral arguments in cases at the U.S. Supreme Court mullin vs doe And Trump vs Miot Where left-wing groups sued the Trump administration after DHS announced last year that TPS would end for thousands of Haitian immigrants and thousands of Syrian immigrants.
While arguing with Solicitor General John Sawyer, who is representing the Trump administration in the case, Sotomayor brought up the president’s prior comments in which he called Haiti a “filth country.”
“Now, we have a president saying at one point, that Haiti is a ‘dirty, dirty and disgusting country,’ and he complained that the United States takes people from countries like that instead of people from Norway, Sweden or Denmark, where he declared illegal immigrants, which he associated with TPS, as ‘poisoning the blood of America,'” Sotomayor said.
“I don’t understand how that one statement is not a prime example of Arlington examples at work and show that a discriminatory motive may have played a role in this decision,” she continued.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson followed Sotomayor’s comments by citing Trump’s prior comments about illegal aliens who commit murders, where the president said such illegals have “bad genes.”
“How about allowing people to come in with open borders, 13,000 of whom were murderers, many of them murdered more than one person, and they are now happily living in the United States,” Trump said during a radio show in 2024. “You know, to be a killer now, I believe it, it’s in their genes. And there are a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com.
