Supreme Court Weighs Trump Bid to End Haiti, Syria TPS

Supreme Court will hear Trump's bid to end legal protection for up to 1.3 million immigrants

Since President Trump returned to office last year, his administration has repeatedly revoked or sought to deny the extension of temporary protections for immigrants from numerous countries.

These Haitian immigrants contribute nearly $6 billion to the economy. Their fate is in the Supreme Court’s hands

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Jan Gautam may soon have to let go of hundreds of workers at dozens of hotels in Florida. That’s why the CEO of IHRMC Hotels & Resorts is closely watching an immigration case that’s before the Supreme Court this week. The employees are Haitians with Temporary Protected Status, known as TPS. Their ability to live and work in the United States was scheduled to expire in early February, but a federal judge paused the Trum…

Supreme Court to Weigh Trump’s Termination of Protected Status for Haitian, Syrian Nationals

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on April 29 on the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian nationals. These cases, Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, pertain to Haiti and Syria, but the justices’ decisions will likely have implications for more than 1 million people from 17 countries currently in the United States under the TPS program. One of the main issues surrounding the ca…

The TPS Cases Will Put the Supreme Court’s Anti-Immigrant Shadow Docket Orders to the Test

As of March 2025, there were roughly 1.3 million people legally living and working in the United States as beneficiaries of a government-run humanitarian program called Temporary Protected Status. Congress created TPS in 1990 to protect people from being deported to countries where “extraordinary and temporary conditions,” such as civil wars and natural disasters, make it unsafe for them to return. TPS country designations last up to 18 months, …

Salvadorans closely watch U.S. Supreme Court arguments on temporary status

When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on the Trump administration’s plans to stop shielding Haitians and Syrians from deportation, people from more than dozen other countries will pay close attention, perhaps none more than an estimated 200,000 from El Salvador. Many Salvadorans have lived in the United States for 25 years under Temporary Protected Status.

Haitians, Syrians aren't the only immigrants watching U.S. Supreme Court arguments on temporary status

When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on the Trump administration’s plans to stop shielding Haitians and Syrians from deportation, people from more than dozen other countries will pay close attention, perhaps none more than an estimated 200,000 from