Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow an end to legal protections for Syrian migrants
The Justice Department seeks to lift a federal injunction blocking the Trump administration’s move to end protections for 6,000 Syrians under Temporary Protected Status.
- On Thursday the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court for emergency relief to let the Trump administration end legal protections for migrants from Syria and urged the court to lift a New York judge's injunction.
- On Thursday, Noem announced that protections for Syria, designated in 2012 after a 'brutal crackdown' by Bashar al-Assad, would end due to the fall of the regime and normalization with Damascus.
- Court filings say about 6,100 people from Syria hold temporary legal status, while 3,860 Syrian nationals were covered as of March 31, 2025; ending TPS could halt work authorization and expose beneficiaries to possible deportation.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to end protections for Syrians in US
President Donald Trump's administration asked the US Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene in its effort to strip deportation protections from about 6,000 Syrians living in the United States. The Justice Department in an emergency request asked the Supreme Court to lift a judge's November decision that blocked the administration's move to end Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Syrians while litigation challenging the move continues. It is …
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Protections for 6,000 Syrians
A Trump administration lawyer has urged the US Supreme Court to let officials end temporary protections for more than 6,000 Syrians living legally in the country, asking the justices on Thursday to clear the way for the termination of their Temporary Protected Status and to rule on the administration's broader power to reshape the programme. The move drags the Supreme Court back into one of the most fraught corners of US immigration policy, and …
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him End TPS Protections for Syrians
The Trump administration has turned to the U.S. Supreme Court in a bid to dismantle deportation protections for approximately 6,000 Syrian citizens. In a Thursday filing, the Justice Department requested that the high court lift a freeze currently preventing the termination of Syria’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS). This legal move follows a February 17 setback in a New York appeals court, which refused to overrule a previous injunction. That …
President Donald Trump asked this morning to withdraw the protection of migrants from Sir a, to render the TPS ineffective.
DOJ asks justices to curb lower courts' 'persistent disregard' for Supreme Court orders in Syrian TPS case
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to lift a lower court’s block on ending temporary protected status for people from Syria, marking the third time the DOJ has had to ask the justices to lift an order blocking the removal of TPS. Solicitor General D. John Sauer stressed that lower courts have continued to “impermissibly bypass” federal law that explicitly strips courts of their ability to second-guess TPS decisions made b…
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