A Supreme Court ruling on June 25, 2026, has placed the future of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program in jeopardy, allowing the Trump administration to proceed with ending deportation protections for thousands of immigrants.
The decision directly affects approximately 330,000 individuals from Haiti and Syria.
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The court confirmed that the secretary of homeland security holds sole authority over granting or revoking TPS designations.
The administration has already canceled TPS for 10 nations, impacting over one million people.
Designations for Lebanon, El Salvador, Sudan, and Ukraine are set to expire later this year.
"It certainly does seem like the number of people who have TPS will continue to decline in this administration," said Julia Gelatt, associate director of U.
S. immigration policy at the Migration Policy Institute.
Gelatt noted that the policy trajectory could lead to a complete elimination of the program by the end of the year.
"We may even end up by the end of this year without anybody who has temporary protected status," Gelatt said.
Immigrant advocacy groups highlighted the long-term community ties established by the affected populations since Congress created the program in 1990.
"They live with hundreds of thousands of U. S.
citizens, family members and spouses and siblings," said Todd Schulte, president of FWD. us.
Schulte emphasized that many recipients have resided legally in the United States for decades.
"These are people who have been building their lives here for over a quarter century, and there is no precedent in modern immigration history for revoking status for a population like that," Schulte said.
