Supreme Court weighs Trump's effort to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, Syrians

(NPR) President Trump could move forward with mass deportations of people who have been living legally in the U.S., many of them for more than a decade, if he prevails in two cases before the Supreme Court Wednesday.

At issue is the Temporary Protected Status program, which permits eligible individuals to live and work in the United States if they cannot return to their home countries because of natural disasters, armed conflicts, and other "extraordinary or temporary conditions." Congress enacted the TPS program in 1990 to establish criteria for selecting, processing, and registering people fleeing such turmoil.

Since then, every president, Republican and Democrat, has embraced the program, except Trump. He is trying to get rid of it.

The vehicle is the temporary status extended previously to eligible individuals from two countries: Haiti, where a devastating earthquake killed more than 300,000 people in 2010 and left the country with roving gangs, cholera epidemics, and without a functioning government — conditions that persist today — and Syria, where a relatively small group of 7,000 individuals has been granted protected status, as a civil war and Israeli bombing attacks continue in parts of the country.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5794042/supeme-court-tps