Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Trump's Move to Strip TPS from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians

The U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2026 heard oral arguments in two consolidated cases — Mullin v. Dahlia Doe (concerning ~350,000 Haitian TPS holders) and Trump v. Miot (concerning ~6,000 Syrian TPS holders) — on the Trump administration's authority to terminate Temporary Protected Status for migrants from those countries. The core legal question before the Court is whether federal courts have jurisdiction to review the executive branch's decision to terminate TPS designations, or whether such decisions are entirely within executive discretion and unreviewable. The Trump administration argues that TPS terminations are foreign policy and immigration enforcement judgments that courts cannot second-guess; civil liberties groups counter that the INA requires judicial review when fundamental rights are at stake. During arguments, Justice Kagan asked whether the administration's interpretation would allow TPS to be terminated 'for any reason or no reason at all,' while Justice Thomas probed the limits of congressional delegation. The cases are expected to produce a ruling by late June 2026. TPS holders from Haiti and Syria have been in the U.S. under these protections for over a decade; termination would trigger removal proceedings for hundreds of thousands of people.