Sunnydale Reader

“TPS is a humanitarian program Congress created in 1990. It lets people from countries shattered by war, earthquakes, or disaster live and work here legally until their home country is safe enough to return to. Fully vetted. Work-authorized. Taxpaying. They’re not here against the law. They’re here by an act of Congress.

“But it was never about that for Trump. For a time, I was in denial about his deep-seated animus toward migrants, until I saw it up close. ….

“Yesterday, in a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the president to do what he’s been dying to do. They ruled that Trump can strip Temporary Protected Status from roughly 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. The Court majority didn’t rule that a place like Haiti is safe, by the way; it ruled that courts basically can’t second-guess Trump on whether it’s safe. Never mind that more than 2,300 people have been killed by gangs there this year and 1.5 million have been driven from their homes.

“The Court took the coward’s way out.

“You think this doesn’t matter for you. You might read all of this and not know a single immigrant in this country and say, “That’s too bad.” But I think you deserve the truth, coming from someone who’s spent years working on these issues, including for the man in the White House. These coming deportations will hit you hard, too.

“Everything in your life is about to get more expensive (again). The hundreds of thousands of the people about to be sent home are the workers holding up your daily life. The ones cooking your food, staffing your hospitals and nursing homes, framing your houses, harvesting what you eat. If you pull that many people out of the economy, you will feel it at the register. That ain’t my compassion talking. That’s just basic arithmetic.

“But here’s the most important thing for you to understand. Your president is distracted. So much so, it’s mentally debilitating. He can’t focus on his other responsibilities.

…. “Here’s the fine point of it. Donald Trump cares more — far, far more — about “mass deportation” than he ever did about the dangers our country faced from “mass destruction.” He’s failed to do his other jobs. He’s failed to protect you. In just the past 18 months, his Justice Department has dropped tens of thousands of criminal cases, terrorism investigations, and other national-security probes to focus resources on immigration. He’s reassigned tens of thousands of analysts, intelligence operatives, and law enforcement agents, redirecting them to spend their time hunting down and deporting people or focusing tracking border flows.

“In doing so, he’s left us dangerously defenseless against cyber criminals, foreign spies, jihadist groups, and beyond. ….

“The judges sided with him and said, in effect, that it’s up to Trump whether he can send people back home. Even if that means telling them to walk the plank, which in some cases, it will. Some of these migrants will be sent home to their deaths.

“What Trump doesn’t realize, perhaps, is that he’s just handed us another reason to beat him in November. Congress can do something about all of this. And they will, once power changes hands. Donald Trump may wear his heartlessness on his sleeve, but we’ll be wearing “I voted” stickers on ours — right after we kick his ass in the midterms. See you at the polls, Mr. President.

Your friend, in defiance,

Miles Taylor

[These are excerpts from, “Donald Trump wears his heartlessness on his sleeve,” by Miles Taylor, DEFIANCE.News (powered by DEFIANCE.org), June 26, 2026.