US EditionTrump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow an end to legal protections for Syrian migrants
The administration argues Syria no longer meets Temporary Protected Status criteria, affecting 3,860 Syrians as of March 2025, and seeks to override lower court injunctions.
- 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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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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Trump administration seeks Supreme Court approval to end Syrian TPS
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to support its blocked order ending temporary deportation protections for thousands of Syrian immigrants residing in the U.S.
Trump administration asks justices to allow it to remove protected status from Syrian nationals
The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to freeze a ruling by a federal judge in New York that indefinitely postpones the termination of a program that allows Syrians to live in the United States temporarily. Pointing to earlier rulings on the court’s interim docket in which the justices granted requests from the Trump administration to pause similar lower-court rulings involving Venezuelans, U.S. Solicitor General D. John S…
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