Union leaders were joined by Gov. Hochul, Mayor Mamdani and others to defend migrant rights
Published
June 30, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)
New York City Mayor Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a Manhattan union headquarters to show his support for the Haitian and Syrian communities after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could end the legal status for potentially millions of foreign nationals, on June 25, 2026. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Within hours of the Supreme Court stripping 330,000 Haitian immigrants of their temporary protective status, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries, Service Employees International Union 1199 President Yvonne Armstrong had assembled at the union’s headquarters to denounce the high court’s ruling as racist and immoral. She was joined by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, as well as several other elected officials. Racist comments that President Donald Trump has made about immigrants surfaced in the Supreme Court’s deliberation but were dismissed by the majority as not being overtly racist.
