WASHINGTON, June 26 -- For the 330,000 Haitian immigrants who have lived legally in the United States since the earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince in 2010, Thursday's Supreme Court ruling arrived as something close to a death sentence, not handed down by a judge but by a six-justice majority that said no judge could stop it.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe that federal courts have no authority to review a presidential decision to end Temporary Protected Status, the humanitarian designation that has shielded Haitian and Syrian immigrants, along with nearly 1.3 million others from 17 countries, from deportation while their home countries remain too dangerous for return. The decision hands President Donald Trump what civil ...