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Good morning Two major Supreme Court rulings go Trump's way on immigration And PR is Nina Tottenberg tells us why the court appears more split than she's ever seen They can't seem to put the Jimney back in the bottle. It's only getting worse. And of course, at the end of the term, it's worse yet. Search and rescue efforts continue after the Venezuelan earthquakes, and the World Cup match did both sides want to lose It's Friday june twenty sixth. I'm Gideian Resnik in for Shamita Bestu. This is Apple News today Yesterday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority gave the Trump administration two powerful tools for its immigration agenda full authority to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants who have been living and working legally in the U S without intervention from the courts, and an avenue to block asylum seekers from entering the country Joining me now to discuss these decisions is NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Tottenberg So let's start with the case involving asylum seekers. The court ruled that the Trump administration can turn people away that are seeking asylum at the US. Mexico border by physically preventing them from crossing into the U S. So can you just walk us through how the justices reached this decision and then the practical impacts Well, it's going to make getting asylum much, much more difficult because up until now for all practical purposes If you thought you had a good asylum you went to specially designated portals at the border And you said I'm here and they went through everything with you. Now, what the Trump administration has done is it's stationed people at the border to prevent anybody from filing an asylum claim. In order to do that, they would have to put their foot literally over the border. And if they can't get their foot over the border, they can't apply for asylum in the United States, which is what the system used to be and is no longer And within the ruling itself, there was a pretty blistering dissent from Justice Sotomayor, which she read aloud in court. That is a little bit unusual, but maybe even more unusual is Justice Alito kind of responding and saying, you know, he would have added more to his own if he knew that She was planning to read that. Can we just stop for a moment and talk about this moment and what it tells us about the relationship She wrote a very powerful dessent in which she invoked the Statue of Liberty essentially in tears. Justice Alito after she finished her dissent. and I have been covering the court for more years than I want to tell you More decades than I want to tell you. I have never seen this happen. He said Well, If I had known that Justice Sotomayora was going to read her dissent from the bench I would have said more in my statement from the bench. But it was such an example, I think, of a rather unhappy court at the moment, especially. we'll have to attribute a lot of this to being the end of the term and everybody being very tired But you also have to assume from this that they This is not a y group together This is not nine people who get along well When Americans see this, when they see disagreement and dissent bill over into what sometimes seems like almost animosity Why is it important that there is some level of decorum or togetherness for this chord. becausecause it's easier for everybody. The truth is I've never covered a court like this. I've never covered a court with no center This is a court that has six veryer, very conservative justices, maybe more conservative as a group then For almost a century even The middle always sort of kept everybody with a certain kind of equilibrium, and that doesn't exist anymore It was Justice O'Connor or Justice Kennedy. And in other eras it was other people, Justice Souudter to some extent And it's just not that way anymore. And just back to the rulings themselves. There was another that involved temporary protected status. That's a program created by Congress in nineteen ninety that allows people from countries Go through war, natural disaster or other crises to temporarily and legally live and work in the U S. It was created at a time where it had bipartisan support. You report that every president, Republican, and Democrat has embraced it since, except for President Trump. So the conservative members of the court, as you mentioned, have now paved the way for the president to end TPS and to begin mass deportations, how did they reach this decision Well, they did it two ways. and one way was the conservatives said this statute never gave power of the courts to intervene in these cases. It gave all the power in the statute to the President and the Department of Homeland Security The second part, however, is where it got really very vituperous. Let's put it that way. The second part was a constitutional challenge and the Haitians said Look at all the awful things you've said about us, President Trump We're from an EL country. none of these things is true and That is evidence of racial discrimination. Justice Alito, who wrote both these decisions, said, look, I agree. The language is unfortunate. and some years ago, it would have been considered scandalous, but that's the way the world is today. And we don't think that there's been any discrimination The other side Justice Kagan writing for the dissent said, what are you talking about This is classic racist behavior. That's basically what she said. And so given all this, what are you expecting as the court wraps up next week But we've got a lot of cases to be decided including Birthrights citizenship which if that turns out to be in the same vein as what we saw today, it will surprise a lot of people me included And it will cause quite a I would say that would cause quite a fewuror. Nina, thank you so much You can read more of her coverage and more about the cases in the Apple News app In Venezuela, the search for survivors goes on after the country was hit with back to back earthquakes. Thousands remain unaccounted for, and the US Geological sururvey is forecasting the death toll to likely climb into the thousands In the capital of Caracas, residents have poured into the streets and open spaces, some in search of loved ones Others because they fear returning to homes with so much structural damage Ruter spoke to one man whose entire home was destroyed famiosleet Tam Fred deopartamentiso. He said that his whole family was out at the time, and luckily his neighbors were able to escape with their lives as well But many others remain trapped And as local journalist Anna Vanessa Arero told the BBC, the country is stretching its resources It's a very hard situation for firefighters and for first responders in Venezuela who don't have tools they need to face this kind of tragedy. They don't have the machinery. so they are now waiting for the international community to come together and enter Venezuela The U. SS. is among those committed to supporting efforts. Secretary of State Mark Rubio spoke about the situation from the Middle East. They have a bunch of collapsed buildings, and so they'll need a lot of help in terms of digging through that The airport there is badly damaged, so we'll have to rely on the Department of War to deploy assets there. And then we're also helping them with some overhead imagery, especially in coastal areas where they don't have full visibility over what the damage has been and what the impact has been Venezuela sits on one of the most active tectonic boundaries in South America but its exact positioning makes quakes of this scale rare Experts believe the first earthquake, a seven point two magnitude, triggered the second one, which registered as a seven point five magnitude It's called a doublet And seismologist Adam Pascal explained to CNN how they can be so devastating. A seven point five may not seem much larger than seven point two, but it's actually twice as large because of the way the scale works. So it just means that that shaking will have gone on for so much longer. So it's really an unusual and very dangerous sequence of events. In the days ahead, questions will also turn to why some buildings collapsed and others held firm Kelvin Padia lives in one of the worst hit areas, and he spoke to the BBC about what he saw. Something that I was watching yesterday and I think this is really important. the houses with maybe ters is okay, the majority. But the buildings, that really old winds from fifty years ago Every crash, everything. And with people inside, that's crazy One engineer told The New York Times that the images emerging suggested that many of the buildings were made of brittle concrete, without adequate steel reinforcement, an issue also raised by the U.S. Geological Survey. And one expert told NPR that many buildings around the world were ultimately designed before there was much understanding about engineering for earthquakes Here are a few other stories we're following today The controversial Alligator Alcatraz facility has officially closed after Florida Governor Rond DeSantis said that it had served its purpose All detainees have already left, having been moved out in advance of Florida's hurricane season. Miami Dadeid County's mayayor said that she hopes to sell the land that housed the facility to the National Park Service to incorporate it into environmental restoration projects The move comes as the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General announced on Thursday that it was investigating treatment of immigrants in facilities operated by IC The probeue extcends back to twenty twenty one and covers the tenures of the past two heads of DHS The European heat wavave smashed temperature records this week as alerts were raised across the UK, Spain, and elsewhere France has been the worst hit, experiencing its hottest day ever earlier this week, with a high of one hundred eleven point seven degrees. Nearly fifty people have drowned, mostly younger victims swimming in unsupervised areas The heat has become unrelenting in a country without much air conditioning Some schools have closed and unions are warning of strikes if more don't fllow of suit. Yesterday, the French government warned that even young people were at risk of cardiac arrest. The record temperatures have been blamed on a heat dome encompassing parts of the continent And a senior UN official said that it had, quote, the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it. And finally to the World Cup match that neither side wants to win This weekend, Algeria and Austria face off in Kansas City. But it could be the loser who leaves the happier of the two That's because whoever wins could clinch Runner up in their group, and that makes it more likely they'll play Spain, the current champions of Europe and a tournament favorite Now these quirks can sometimes happen in World Cups, but this year, there's even more potentially unusual scenarios, with thirty two teams qualifying for the knockouts rather than sixteen So will they throw the game? Austria at least has a cautionary tale in their past they might be thinking about Back in nineteen eighty two, they played West Germany in the Spanish city of Gihon. a narrow win for the Germans would have sent both teams through So after one early goal, both sides effectively gave up. It was so infamous, it became known as the disgrace of Ghon Somehow the disgrace of Kansas City just wouldn't have the same ring to it You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already listening to the news app right now, stick around for the latest episode of Apple News in Conversation This week, guest host, David Green talks to the New Yorkers' Jay Caspian Kang about his deep dive into the crisis facing higher education in America today and what the future might look like.s The most fundamental question And I don't know if the colleges are ready to ask this question, which is like, why are we here? What are we doing? Like why do we exist right outside of a credentialing system that people do because they've done it in the past or because their parents did it or because employers want it? If you're listening in the podcast app, you can follow Apple News in Conversation to find that episode or just come back to the Apple News Today feeed tomorrow Enjoy the weekend and I'll be back with the news on Monday