Supreme Court allows Trump to remove protections from thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants
Written by tropixx105 on June 25, 2026
(NBC News) – The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to remove legal protections from thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants in the United States, meaning they could be subject to deportation.
The court, on a 6-3 vote on ideological lines, ruled in favor of the administration, which asked to continue with its plan to strip Temporary Protected Status from about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians.
Writing for the majority, conservative Justice Samuel Alito said that judges overstepped their authority in second-guessing the administration’s decision. The court also rejected a claim that the decision to remove protections for Haitians was discriminatory.
The law in question “expressly restricts” courts from reviewing determinations made by the Department of Homeland Security on whether to terminate or extend TPS protections, he wrote.
As for the claims of discrimination against Haitians, Alito said none of the statements cited by plaintiffs — including President Donald Trump baselessly accusing them of eating people’s pets — were “overtly racial” and “insufficient to show that the termination of Haiti’s TPS designation was based on the race of the Haitian people.”
Last year, the Supreme Court in two separate decisions allowed the Trump administration to revoke the same kind of legal status from 600,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. The Trump administration argued in court papers that those actions set a precedent that lower courts should have applied to the Haitian and Syrian immigrants, too.
