Supreme Court Allows Trump to End Haiti and Syria TPS

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6-3 in May 2026 to allow the Donald Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. The ruling overturned lower court injunctions in New York and Washington, D.C., which had previously blocked the terminations due to failures in statutory protocols and evidence of racial animus.

During oral arguments in April, the administration's legal team argued that TPS determinations are primarily executive foreign policy decisions and should not be subject to judicial micromanagement. Liberal justices questioned whether the decisions were driven by discrimination, citing the president's derogatory comments about Haiti. The court ultimately accepted the government's argument that TPS was not intended as a permanent asylum program.

The ruling potentially empowers the administration to strip protections from up to 1.3 million people across 17 countries. While the U.S. House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation in April to extend protections for Haitians, the measure faces a likely veto from the White House and continued opposition in the Senate.