June 26, 2026
The US Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for President Donald Trump's administration to strip hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants of a humanitarian status that protects them from deportation, giving another boost to his hardline approach toward immigration.
The court, in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative justices, overturned decisions by federal judges in New York and Washington, DC, that had halted the administration's actions terminating Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for more than 350,000 people from Haiti and 6,100 from Syria.
The court also backed Trump in a second immigration-related decision on Thursday involving policy toward asylum seekers.
The State Department currently warns against traveling to either Haiti or Syria, citing widespread violence, crime, terrorism and kidnapping.
