Supreme Court allows Trump to end TPS for Haitian, Syrian immigrants
Source: Scripps News
Posted 10 minutes ago and last updated 8 minutes ago
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can proceed with ending temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Syria and Haiti. In a six to three ruling, the majority of justices found that federal law generally bars judicial review of TPS designation and termination decisions. The court also found that challengers to the law were unlikely to succeed on claims that Haiti's TPS designation was terminated because of racial discrimination.
After the Trump administration ended TPS for nationals of Haiti and Syria last year, the Supreme Court agreed to take an ordinary review of the case after lower courts issued temporary injunctions.
TPS was created by Congress in 1990 and is designated when conditions in a country do not allow for its nationals' safe return, and prevents their removal from the United States. Haiti was added to that list after an earthquake in 2010, allowing some of its citizens to live in the U.S. under the program.
However, the Trump administration said it was terminating Haitis TPS, citing concerns that Haitian gangs such as those designated by the State Department as foreign terrorist organizations pose a serious threat to U.S. interests.. Advocates for Haitian and Syrian nationals say that the Trump administrations termination of TPS was arbitrary and didnt follow the requirements. They say the government was also discriminatory in removing TPS status from Haitian and Syrian migrants.
Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-end-tps-for-haitian-syrian-immigrants
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-1083_f204.pdf
Solly Mack
(97,441 posts)All others, fuck off and die.
Vinca
(54,547 posts)Of course, a sane POTUS wouldn't, but SCOTUS doesn't seem to get that what goes around comes around.
Solly Mack
(97,441 posts)another Democratic President. That's their goal anyway.
efhmc
(17,294 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(106,858 posts)johnnyfins
(4,160 posts):/
Seeking Serenity
(3,358 posts)johnnyfins
(4,160 posts)But I didnt mean it like that. My post was a direct insult because Roberts is so concerned(supposedly) about how scotus is viewed.
wolfie001
(8,196 posts)pat_k
(14,520 posts)I pray that within the next decade we have the majorities needed to impeach any of the traitors left, or at a minimum, expand the court and "retire" them to an extremely limited emeritus status.
muriel_volestrangler
(106,858 posts)The update was delivered by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk during the opening of the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where he called on Haitian authorities to urgently confront entrenched impunity and restore rule of law in the Caribbean nation.
In Haiti, gang violence has resulted in at least 2,300 deaths, 1,100 injuries and 99 kidnappings since the start of the year, Türk said, urging faster action to activate judicial mechanisms aimed at addressing the crisis.
Haiti, a nation of roughly 12 million people, has been in turmoil since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, a turning point that accelerated the collapse of state authority in several regions.
Armed gangs now control large portions of Port-au-Prince and have been linked to widespread killings, sexual violence, looting and kidnappings, according to UN assessments.
https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/posts/un-warns-of-worsening-crisis-in-haiti-as-gang-violence-surges-past-2000-deaths-this-year
"Haitian gangs such as those designated by the State Department as foreign terrorist organizations pose a serious threat to U.S. interests". They pose a far more serious threat to anyone in Haiti. Which is why they need TPS.
ananda
(35,816 posts)I've been thinking about this off and on all day.
Harming and disenfranchising Blacks... no problem.
Getting Latinos deported... a bit of a problem...
hence the vicious attacks on Dems and a strong
reliance on continuous culture wars.
They are desperate to keep Latinos on side for the
vote (if there is one).
LetMyPeopleVote
(183,985 posts)In 2016, Trump told Haitian Americans he wanted to be the communitys biggest champion. A decade later, the rhetoric rings like a cruel joke.
Around this time a decade ago, Trump stressed the âcommon valuesâ he shared with Haitian Americans and vowed to be the communityâs âbiggest champion.â
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-26T13:57:41.403Z
Ten years later, the rhetoric rings like a cruel joke.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/supreme-court-trump-haitians-vowed-to-champion
Whether you vote for me or not, the candidate said at the time, I really want to be your biggest champion.....
And two years after that, a full decade after he stressed the common values he shared with Haitian Americans and vowed to be the communitys biggest champion, the Republican took steps to eliminate temporary status protection for hundreds of thousands of Haitians currently living legally in the United States.
The move sparked a court fight, culminating in a predictable ruling from the high courts conservative majority. MS NOWs Jordan Rubin explained:
The Supreme Courts Republican-appointed majority sided with the Trump administration over Haitians and Syrians on Thursday in a ruling on the administrations attempt to end humanitarian safeguards under the Temporary Protected Status program.
Justice Samuel Alitos majority opinion curbed the power of courts to review government decisions to terminate protections under the TPS program. For this case, the majority said that means Haitians and Syrians arent entitled to orders keeping their protections in place while their litigation proceeds, even though lower courts found serious legal problems with the administrations attempt to end their protections.
Writing for the three-member minority, Justice Elena Kagan explained that without such postponement, hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians living in this country will lose their legal status and work authorization and that most of them will have no legal option except to leave the country, even at the price of leaving family behind.
Kagan went on to note that hundreds of thousands of lives will be uprooted, most permanently, while this litigation to annul the Secretarys (likely illegal) termination orders proceeds.
By all appearances, the White House considers such consequences a feature, not a bug.
In her latest opinion piece for The New York Times, Kate Shaw, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, added that with the high courts ruling, the administration is now free to move forward with what immigrants rights advocates describe as the largest de-documentation in U.S. history.