The Supreme Court handed President Trump a major immigration victory Thursday, upholding his administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians living in the United States.
The 6-3 conservative majority ruled in Mullin v. Doe that Trump’s rescission of TPS — correcting years of Biden-era abuse — stands. The decision clears the way for removing Haitians from communities like Springfield, Ohio, a key 2024 campaign pledge from Trump and JD Vance.
“The Secretary of Homeland Security has terminated every TPS designation that has come up for renewal, 13 in all.”
Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion centered on whether executive immigration decisions can be reviewed by courts. The TPS statute explicitly states that Homeland Security determinations are non-reviewable by the judiciary. Alito upheld that common-sense reading.
As determined by Trump’s DHS secretary, foreign nationals from nearly a dozen countries — including Haiti and Syria — will no longer receive TPS and are now eligible for removal.
Alito noted the betrayal baked into the program: despite the promise of “temporary” status, TPS has effectively been permanent for decades. Trump campaigned on ending that abuse.
Lower courts tried to block Trump’s TPS terminations anyway, claiming the Haitian plaintiffs faced unconstitutional race-based discrimination. Their evidence? Trump once called certain countries “sh*t hole countries.”
The district court granted relief based on that claim. The Supreme Court rejected it.
“Nevertheless, lower courts, including those in the cases now before us, have continued to block the Secretary’s attempted terminations of other TPS designations.”
Justice Clarence Thomas went further in his concurrence, writing that non-citizens have no equal-protection claim in the first place. Foreigners “have never been guaranteed a right to immigration status or citizenship based on equal protection principles, even when these laws were openly discriminatory,” Thomas wrote, citing the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
Thomas argued the entire anti-discrimination standard is absurd when applied to immigration law. “It is impossible to construct immigration and naturalization laws that do not distinguish and discriminate based on ethnicity and country of origin,” he wrote.
The win is significant — but the case highlights a deeper problem. Why should any administration have the power to open the borders to unlimited third-world migration just because conditions abroad are worse than ours?
Executive discretion helped Trump this time. But executive discretion also let Biden abuse TPS with no judicial check.
The 1990 Immigration Act that created TPS is ripe for abuse and has been abused for decades. The only way to complete Trump’s reforms and ensure TPS isn’t weaponized again is to shut down the program entirely.
Congress must repeal the 1990 statute. America is not a global refugee dumping ground. Our children need not be disinherited because other countries are dysfunctional.
It’s time to reject the moral blackmail and defend the interests of the American people.
Great news for the dogs and cats of Springfield. https://t.co/F7vwSmFLGC pic.twitter.com/Tzdl1kOJXM
— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) June 25, 2026
This is what we mean by judicial tyranny. Biden mass imported illegals from Venezuela, including criminals, gave them welfare and social security numbers. President Trump won an election promising to end the invasion. A rogue marxist judge just ordered Biden’s amnesty continued. https://t.co/tuJJoxFA5M
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) March 31, 2025
