NPR News: 06-26-2026 2AM EDT

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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Rescue teams in Venezuela are searching for survivors trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings following Wednesday evening's back-to-back earthquakes. Hundreds are believed to be trapped, and many remain unaccounted for. Venezuela's health minister now says some twen- two hundred thirty-five people are confirmed dead, and another forty-three hundred were injured. Hundreds of buildings have been damaged, and thousands are homeless. The Supreme Court ruled six to three Thursday that the Trump administration can revoke temporary protected status. Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider says the decision puts more than a million people from Haiti and Syria at risk.

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Hossain El Bakri is an attorney with the International Refugee Assistance Project representing the plaintiffs.

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Those people will be subject to arrest, detention, deportation by the Trump administration, and for the more than one point three million TPS holders around the country, those folks will be in imminent danger of the same, depending on where, what the status of their case is.

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Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said that TPS functions at the discretion of the president and is not subject to court review. He also wrote President Trump's past statements with respect to Haitians were policy-based and not racially discriminatory. Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent that Trump's statements about Haitians were, quote, "So repellent and racially inflected