WATCH: AOC accuses Trump of ‘betrayal’ after Supreme Court immigration rulings
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez WATCH: AOC accuses Trump of ‘betrayal’ after Supreme Court immigration rulings
The congresswoman argued the TPS decision targets nurses, health care workers and restaurant employees, not criminals
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Video WATCH: Capitol Hill Dems slam Supreme Court, Trump after ruling on Haitian, Syrian migrants
Democrats slammed Trump, GOP and SCOTUS after a ruling stripped Temporary Protective (TPS) status for thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants. (Credit: Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital)
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused President Donald Trump of a "betrayal" after the Supreme Court handed his administration a pair of immigration wins involving Temporary Protected Status and asylum claims.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitian and Syrian migrants, clearing the way for the administration to remove legal protections that have allowed many Haitians to remain and work in the U.S. since Haiti’s 2010 earthquake and many Syrians since the country’s civil war prompted a TPS designation in 2012.
Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told Fox News Digital the TPS decision targets the very people Trump supporters were told would not be the focus of his aggressive immigration deportation agenda.
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"I think it's really sad because these decisions are targeting exactly the kind of people that Republican voters said that they did not want targeted in the Trump administration's immigration policy," Ocasio-Cortez said.
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks to members of the media as she arrives for the last votes of the week at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 21, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
She argued the ruling marked "a reversal of President Trump's promise to only go after, quote unquote, criminals and rapists."
"This decision to overturn TPS targets nurses, it targets health care workers, it targets domestic workers, cleaners, people who work in restaurants," she said, calling it "a real betrayal of President Trump's promise."
Ocasio-Cortez also argued the ruling would hurt U.S. citizens by raising prices, making it harder to find workers, while also breaking up longstanding communities.
House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., criticized Trump and Republicans over the asylum ruling, saying the president has "time and time again" attacked a process that has been part of U.S. law for decades.
House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
"People are fleeing terrible conditions and they have a lawful right to declare asylum," Aguilar said.
"Temporary Protected Status was always meant to be temporary," White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson said on Thursday. "It was never meant to be a pathway to permanent status or citizenship...our asylum system, for years, has been abused and exploited by bad actors...this ruling is a step in the right direction towards clearing up our asylum system and making sure that people can't enter our country who shouldn't be here — and that people who are here, who shouldn't be here, should be deported."
Asked what Democrats’ next step would be on TPS, Aguilar pointed to legislation he said Democrats forced through the House by discharge petition.
"Democrats led legislation in order to bring certainty to that. It's sitting over in the Senate," Aguilar said. "We forced a discharge petition, and were successful because we believe in governing."
Aguilar appeared to be referring to House-passed legislation aimed at extending TPS protections for Haitians.
Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Ala., said he had not yet read the full decisions but was "beyond the point of being surprised by almost any decision that comes out of court."
Congressman Shomari Figures, D-Ala., speaks at a press conference on healthcare with other members of the House Democratic caucus in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 12, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Figures defended TPS for Haiti, citing natural disasters, political instability and violence.
"There's not a country that I think TPS is designed at its core that's more deserving of that than the situations we currently see in Haiti," Figures said.
Alec Schemmel is a Politics Reporter for Fox News Digital who is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina but now resides in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore Metro Area.
Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'
Kemi Badenoch has told Labour women to earn a job in Andy Burnham's Cabinet instead of demanding they are handed jobs because of their gender.
The Tory leader lashed out today amid reports that female MPs are demanding the de-facto new prime minister introduce a 50:50 gender split 'quota' in his government.
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister also complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts.
But in a scathing article in the Times today Mrs Badenoch told them to 'stop moaning' and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'.
'There are many, many reasons why you shouldn't have any Milibands in the cabinet,' she said.
'But complaining that the boys haven't given them the right jobs or that the boys are taking all the jobs, just shows that Labour's women still don't get it.'
The idea of quotas was also attacked by Baroness Jacqui Smith, Labour's Skills Minister.
Asked by Times Radio if Mr Burnham should reserve jobs for women, she said: 'No, I think what Andy Burnham should be doing is building the very best team around him to change this country.'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband (above, right, in 2010) is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts
But Mrs Badenoch told them to pipe down and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and seen by the BBC has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs after he succeeds Sir Keir Starmer.
'We are asking you to demonstrate this change from day one and address the toxicity and misogyny within our own party and government,' it said.
Labour has never had a female leader, while the Conservatives have had three, and Mrs Badenoch urged the government to follow its meritocratic example.
'If you run a meritocracy, then you do not have to worry about jobs for the boys,' she wrote.
'Every woman who is a Conservative MP, every woman who has ever won the leadership, has had to fight to get where she is.
'By contrast, Labour women are demanding guarantees from Burnham. But the truth is he doesn't have to give any guarantees.
'If none of Labour's women are prepared to get their hands dirty and challenge him for the leadership, their demands are toothless.'
'In fact, it's quite revealing that the women's parliamentary Labour Party has written to Burnham asking him to commit himself to at least 50 per cent female ministers.
'This has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is yet more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country.'
