The administration of President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a judge's order allowing temporary protected status for Haitian immigrants to remain in place, potentially opening the door for deportations to begin.
The request for the case to be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States was filed on March 11. The nation's highest court has not agreed to take the case as of 4:30 p.m. on March 11.
Haitian TPS had been set to expire in early February but a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered it to remain in effect while a lawsuit filed by several Haitians proceeds through the legal process.
Haitians have had temporary protected status since 2010, and an estimated 350,000 Haitians live in the United States.
Temporary protected status can be given to immigrants from countries where environmental disaster, epidemics, ongoing armed conflict or other extraordinary and temporary conditions exist. TPS allows those migrants to live and work legally in the United States.
