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Supreme Court Lets Trump Strip Protections From 356,000 Haitians and Syrians.

Resist Now Updated July 31, 2026 4 min read
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The Supreme Court ruled on June 25, 2026, that the Trump administration can end deportation protections for about 356,000 Haitians and Syrians living legally in the United States. The 6-3 decision also held that federal courts cannot review whether the administration followed the law in ending those protections, Reuters reported.

What Temporary Protected Status Is

Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, lets people from countries hit by war or disaster live and work in the United States legally until their home country is safe again. Haiti and Syria both qualified because of armed conflict and collapse.

TPS does not grant citizenship. It grants the legal right to stay and work, renewed in set periods, and holders pass background checks and pay fees to keep it.

The Court Shut the Courthouse Door

The most consequential part of the ruling is not that the protections can end. It is that no judge can check the decision. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said the law bars courts from reviewing the secretary’s TPS calls.

“The secretary’s TPS designation decisions are not subject to judicial review.”

Justice Samuel Alito, majority opinion, June 25, 2026

That removes the main legal backstop people had against a sudden loss of status. It also fits a broader run of decisions that shrink judicial review, leaving fewer ways for courts to check executive action.

356,000 Haitians and Syrians can now lose the legal right to live and work in the U.S., with no court able to review how the decision was made.

Who Loses Their Status

About 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians are affected. Many have lived, worked, and paid taxes here for years on TPS that the government renewed again and again.

Without another form of protection, they lose work authorization and become subject to deportation, in many cases to countries the U.S. government itself still rates as too dangerous to visit. Haiti remains under a Level 4 “Do Not Travel” advisory.

What You Can Do Now

  1. Call your members of Congress at (202) 224-3121 and ask them to pass legislation protecting TPS holders, such as the American Dream and Promise Act, which would give long-term TPS recipients a path to permanent status. The Court closed the courthouse door, so Congress is the remaining check.

  2. Contact the Senate and House Judiciary Committees and ask them to hold hearings on the use of the no-judicial-review provision to strip status from hundreds of thousands of legal residents without any court able to weigh in.

  3. Support legal aid for affected families. Groups like the National Immigration Law Center and local immigrant legal-aid organizations help people find other forms of protection before their status lapses.

  4. Use the letter below to tell your representatives that people who have lived and worked here legally for years should not be deported to active war zones without a hearing.

Update, July 26, 2026: As Haitian TPS protections expire following the Supreme Court’s 6-to-3 June ruling, the Guardian reports that an estimated 13,000 Haitian TPS holders work as nursing assistants and care for 65,000 patients daily across the United States. Roxana Rivera, assistant to the president at SEIU 32BJ, which represents thousands of affected workers, warned that healthcare and building-service employers face immediate labor shortfalls as workers lose authorization.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has directed TPS recipients to seek other legal status, but no direct pathway from TPS to a green card exists under current law. The Trump administration’s asylum grant rate has fallen below 5%, according to the Guardian’s July 26 reporting.

The State Department has issued a non-travel advisory for Haiti citing a national state of emergency, while the United Nations continues to document active gang violence across the country. A DHS spokesperson dismissed those conditions as a barrier, stating TPS “was never intended to be a pathway to permanent status or legal residency.”

Update, July 31, 2026: Temporary Protected Status for Haitians expired on July 27, ending work authorization for roughly 330,000 people nationwide, including 30,000 in central Ohio. Ohio Capital Journal reported that ICE has begun directing Haitians in Springfield to report to a Cincinnati office, where they are fitted with ankle monitors and told to check in within 30 days.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said federal officials told him this week they have no current plans for raids in Springfield, though he acknowledged that could change without notice. Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther said ICE does not share enforcement plans with city officials, adding that more than 280 people were detained in Columbus last December during Operation Buckeye.

The Ohio Department of Children and Youth awarded a grant to the Nehemiah Foundation and the Department of Jobs and Family Services to fund a respite care network for children whose parents face detention or deportation. At least 18 host families are enrolled, each able to shelter children for up to 14 days while parents and the state pursue longer-term placement with relatives.

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