Trump Cannot End Protections For 350,000 Haitians, U.S. Appeals Court Rules

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Source: Huff Post/Reuters

Mar 7, 2026, 08:00 AM EST


March 7 (Reuters) - A divided U.S. appeals court has refused to let the Trump administration revoke legal protections that allow more than 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S. and avoid being returned to their gang-violence-stricken country.

A 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late on Friday rejected the administration’s bid to pause a February 2 ruling that blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from ending Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status.

TPS is a humanitarian program that shields eligible migrants from deportation and allows them to work. Under outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the department has moved to end TPS for a dozen countries as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, arguing the program was never intended to serve as a “de facto amnesty.”

The administration had asked the D.C. Circuit to stay U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ February order while it appeals. Her decision came in a class-action lawsuit brought by Haitians seeking to prevent DHS from exposing them to deportation.

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/lgvdgkxzdpo/03072026haiti_tps.pdf

2 Biden judges & a 45 judge.


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[Lovie777]

1. Good news......

DOJ will ask the 6 RWer justices at US S C.

DHS will ignore the Appeals Court and deport them without due process anyways.

Laws and rules don’t apply to RWers, i. e. Republican Party.

[ancianita]

4. If/When this lands on the SCOTUS shadow docket, they won't overrule the appellate court.

Because lack of due process at any part of their detention or proceedings is too fundamentally unconstitutional to be allowed by SCOTUS.

AND though trump has ignored the other courts, trump has done and will continue to do what SCOTUS says.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. "Humanitarian" is not part of the right wing vocabulary.

[twodogsbarking]

3. and then the judge started to get death threats....

[AndrewFoster]

5. Trump Cannot End Protections For 350,000 Haitians, U.S. Appeals Court Rules

nteresting ruling. I guess the courts are limiting Donald Trump’s immigration policy push for now. This will probably keep the debate around TPS and immigration protection going for a while.