Overview
- The Court issued two 6-3 decisions on June 25 that let the Department of Homeland Security proceed with ending Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of people and held that migrants standing in Mexico have not yet “arrived” to apply for asylum.
- Justices ruled that the TPS statute bars federal courts from reviewing non‑constitutional challenges to designation or termination, clearing the way to strip protections for about 350,000 Haitian and roughly 6,000 Syrian nationals.
- Without TPS, affected people would lose work authorization and protection from deportation, putting many parents, U.S.-born children, and essential workers in health care and other industries at risk of separation or job loss.
- The White House and DHS hailed the rulings as a restoration of temporary status rules, while immigrant advocates, unions, and many Democratic officials warned of severe humanitarian and economic effects and pledged further legal and legislative action.
- Legal experts say the decisions also empower the administration to reapply metering at ports of entry and to seek terminations for other TPS countries, which could affect roughly 1.3 million people who have held TPS in recent years.