Supreme Court lets Trump strip deportation protections from Syrians and Haitians

The Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to strip deportation protections from Syrians and Haitians centers on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and whether courts can review termination decisions. On Thursday, the court said the administration may proceed to end TPS for more than 356,000 immigrants, following its finding that TPS law bars judicial review of certain federal-law claims. The dispute began when the Department of Homeland Security moved to end TPS for over 6,000 Syrians and about 350,000 Haitians, while lower courts had paused the terminations. In a 6–3 ruling, the court reversed those pauses, with Justice Samuel Alito writing that non-constitutional claims cannot be considered. Justice Elena Kagan dissented, joined by Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, arguing required consultations were not properly done and that Haiti plaintiffs faced race-tainted reasoning. The ruling could affect more than 1 million TPS recipients across 17 countries.