New Delhi, June 26 -- WASHINGTON - They built lives here. Raised children, opened businesses, buried parents. Did all of it under a federal humanitarian program that the Supreme Court ruled Thursday can be revoked by the president at will, with no court able to stop it.

In a pair of 6-3 decisions handed down Thursday, the court's conservative supermajority cleared the legal path for the Trump administration to strip deportation protections from roughly 350,000 Haitian immigrants and thousands of Syrians, while simultaneously reviving a contested border practice that turns asylum seekers away before they set foot on American soil. Taken together, the rulings represent the broadest judicial endorsement of the administration's immigration a...