The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, June 25, that the Trump administration can move forward with ending Temporary Protected Status for Syrian and Haitian nationals — clearing the way for potential deportations of hundreds of thousands of people currently shielded from removal.
Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the court majority, held that under the TPS statute, the president holds unreviewable authority to terminate the program. Courts cannot intervene.
The ruling
The decision strips federal judges of the power to block TPS terminations — a tool lower courts had used to halt the administration’s moves against both the Syrian and Haitian TPS populations. Alito’s majority opinion draws a hard line: once the president acts to end TPS designations, that call isn’t subject to judicial second-guessing.
TPS is a humanitarian designation that allows nationals from countries hit by armed conflict, natural disasters, or other extraordinary conditions to live and work legally in the United States. The administration had moved to terminate TPS for both Syria and Haiti, arguing those designations were no longer warranted. Legal challenges had held those terminations in limbo — until now.
The ruling doesn’t set a removal date. What happens next — and how fast — remains unsettled.
