Overview
- The administration's appeals, which the justices hear Wednesday, challenge lower-court orders that kept protections for more than 350,000 Haitians and about 6,000 Syrians.
- The Justice Department argues the TPS law blocks any court review of the homeland security secretary’s decisions, including the procedures used to end a country’s designation.
- Federal judges said officials skipped required consultation on country conditions, and a D.C. judge found the Haiti decision likely driven in part by racial animus.
- The outcome could reach beyond these two nations to affect TPS designations for up to 17 countries that now cover roughly 1.3 million people.
- Advocates point to economic stakes, citing research that TPS holders have $29 billion in yearly spending power and are central to local workforces highlighted in briefs from former Ohio attorneys general.