The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday about a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian immigrants.
The case asks the court whether the administration properly considered conditions in the two nations when it ended TPS and if it discriminated against non-white immigrants. Ending TPS would impact about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians.
If the court rules in favor of the Trump administration, it could lead to officials stripping protections for more of the 17 countries currently under TPS.
Immigrant advocates argued that the Trump administration’s decision to end TPS for Haiti and Syria is not based on the nations’ conditions.
“By trying to kill TPS, they are attacking people who are living and working here legally, paying fees and taxes, following all the rules,” said José Palma, coordinator at the National TPS Alliance. “They are de-documenting people… it’s cruel, arbitrary, pointless, needless and wrong.”
The administration argued that conditions have changed in these nations and a safe return is possible.
Haitian immigrants were first granted protection under TPS in 2010 after a severe earthquake hit the nation, and it has repeatedly been extended because of gang violence that has displaced more than a million people, according to court documents. Syria was added to nations under TPS in 2012 amid a civil war that continued until the fall of the national government in late 2024.
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