Sally & Asylum

This week, we discuss Suzan-Lori Park's play-within-a-play, “Sally & Tom” before we segue into the latest regarding SCOTUS decisions on immigration, asylum, and green card protections.We start with the Word of the Week, micro-boycotting, which is a great way to have agency when it feels that there are no options for you as a consumer. Then we move into the stage play that queries the complex relationship between the enslaved woman, Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. We conclude with the Presidential authority to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian nationals without a formal process, asylum and inspection obligations at the border outside the U.S., and implications for green card holders, due process, and re-entry protections.Mentioned in the showTruths not self-evident in ‘Sally & Tom’ at Round House - DC Theater ArtsThis Play Within a Play Confronts the Power Dynamic Between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson – Smithsonian MagazineSuzan-Lori Parks: Sally & Tom — Rehearsed Reading - Schwarzman Centre for the HumanitiesIn a Forceful Dissent, Justice Elena Kagan Says the Supreme Court Ignored Evidence of Trump Administration’s Anti-Haitian Bias – Ms. MagazineSanitized and Unreviewable: Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Mullin v Doe on Ending Temporary Protected Status for 1.3m Noncitizens – Just SecurityAbandoning Principles: Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Mullin v. Al Otro Lado Denying Asylum to Arriving Migrants – Just SecurityMULLIN, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. DOE ET AL. – SCOTUS (TPS case)MULLIN, SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. AL OTRO LADO ET AL. – SCOTUS (Asylum at the border case)Blanche v Lau (2026) – SCOTUS (Green Card case)Supreme Court makes it easier for border agents to deport Green Card holders accused of crimes – ABC News