Supreme Court Reviews End of TPS for 350,000 Haitians, 6,000 Syrians

U.S. Supreme Court will consider on Wednesday whether the Trump administration can end temporary protected immigration status for more than 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. The case stems from lawsuits filed by Haitians and Syrians granted the status, which an appellate judge reaffirmed in February.

U.S. until homeland conditions improve. S.

President Donald Trump promised during his 2024 campaign to end protected status for Haitians.

U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes issued a ruling in February against the Trump administration's decision to end temporary protected status for Haitians who arrived as far back as 2010 following a devastating earthquake.

Kristi Noem served as Secretary of Homeland Security. S.

Supreme Court. Tricia McLaughlin, former Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, posted on X after Reyes’ ruling: “Supreme Court, here we come,” and added that temporary protected status “was never intended to be a de facto amnesty program, yet that’s how previous administrations have used it for decades.

” The government contends that judges have encroached upon the rights Congress gave presidents to end temporary protected status.

U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month in support of Haitian TPS holders. During his 2024 campaign, President Trump accused Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, of eating the cats and dogs of their American neighbors.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in a court filing that prior statements from President Trump or Kristi Noem involve no race, many were made before the election, and most have nothing to do with TPS. S.

Supreme Court is not expected to issue a ruling on the case until the summer of 2026. S.

Marjory Wentworth is South Carolina’s former poet laureate and settled in Springfield, Ohio, just before it became the center of national attention. In the 1980s, Marjory Wentworth worked as an advocate for immigrants seeking asylum and encountered jailed Haitian migrants with their babies. Wentworth, now a college professor, works with the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio.

Haiti became the first independent Black nation in the western hemisphere in 1804 after a revolution. S. government took decades to recognize Haiti as a sovereign nation after the 1804 revolution.

S. S. occupation of Haiti between 1915 and 1934. S. in large numbers during the rise of dictator Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier in the 1960s and 1970s.

In the late 1960s under President Richard Nixon, many Haitian blue-collar skilled workers like seamstresses, shoemakers, cabinetmakers, and farm workers obtained green cards. , but the government approved just 100. S.

U.S. asylum. President Jimmy Carter enacted “the Haitian Program” in 1980, a practice of detaining and repatriating Haitians.

A federal judge struck down the Haitian Program two years after it began in 1980. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill in 1986 making immigrants who arrived before 1982 eligible for amnesty. Under the Reagan administration, the government conducted a coordinated effort to catch Haitian boats at sea and detain people who made it ashore.

In the late 1980s, protests against discrimination toward Haitians occurred in communities like Miami. W. Bush. Haitians did not receive temporary protected status until two decades after the program's start in 1990.

In 1997, as Congress worked on a bill giving Nicaraguans legal residency, attorneys with the Haitian Lawyers Association requested inclusion for Haitians but were told it was too late. Lawmakers added Cubans to the 1997 bill after denying Haitians. Congress passed a specific bill for Haitians after the 1997 Nicaraguan bill, but it was more restrictive with a tighter application window and fewer eligible immigrants.

” In a separate development, Profs. com from Monday to Wednesday. Jeff Kosseff is a professor at the Naval Academy and is moving this year to Minnesota.

Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff authored the book 'The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom'. The book examines the global decline of free speech rights over a century.