The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, a decision that could affect hundreds of thousands of people living in the United States.
In a 6-3 ruling announced June 25, the court sided with the administration’s position that federal courts cannot review or block the Department of Homeland Security’s process for ending a country’s TPS designation. The ruling applies to more than 350,000 Haitians and about 6,100 Syrians who had been allowed to live and work in the country because conditions in their home countries were considered unsafe.
Temporary Protected Status is a humanitarian program for people from countries affected by war, natural disasters, or other extraordinary conditions. Haiti has faced political violence, instability, and humanitarian crises, while Syria has been affected by years of conflict.
Lower courts had previously blocked the administration’s effort to end the protections. The Supreme Court’s decision clears the way for those protections to be removed, though individual immigration cases may still vary.
The court’s liberal justices dissented, raising concerns about the process used to end the protections and the impact on families and communities.