June 25, 2026: In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled DHS can continue with termination of TPS for Haiti and Syria (Mullin v. Doe, 6/25/26). Once this decision goes into effect in the days or weeks to come, hundreds of thousands of people lawfully present in the country will lose their status. Many will become undocumented for the first time ever. This ruling removes the judicial roadblocks that had kept the program active. As a result, affected individuals may lose their work authorization and face potential deportation proceedings unless they qualify for other forms of legal immigration relief.
The decision will also permit the Trump administration to return to federal court in other cases and overturn decisions ruling against the termination of TPS for countries such as Venezuela, Somalia, Ethiopia, and others. The impact of termination of TPS for Haiti and Syria is likely to be very significant in communities with large numbers of TPS recipients. Healthcare groups have flagged that thousands of Haitian nurses, home health aides, and other healthcare workers are expected to lose their jobs. Unless Congress takes steps to provide permanent legal status to TPS holders, hundreds of thousands are now vulnerable to losing work authorization and facing deportation.
When President Trump took office in January 2025, roughly 1.3 million people were present lawfully in the United States on TPS, including 350,000 Haitians, the majority of whom entered legally during the Biden administration and were granted TPS following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 and as a result of the ongoing crisis which enveloped the country in the aftermath.
With Trump administration termination of TPS for Haiti and Syria, and other countries, lower courts determined that the administration failed to abide by required procedures established by Congress. Under those procedures, TPS should only be terminated if an interagency review determines that conditions in the country have improved. Documents uncovered during the Haitian TPS case revealed that the Trump administration failed to follow required legal procedures and ignored ongoing dangers in Haiti.
Despite this, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a provision of the TPS statute limiting lawsuits challenging TPS “determinations” prevented courts from hearing any lawsuits challenging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary’s failure to follow the required legal procedures. In addition, the majority opinion declared that President Trump’s repeated public denigration of Haiti and Haitians did not rise to the level of unconstitutional racial animus that would permit a court to set aside the TPS decision.
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