Supreme Court Clears TPS Termination for Haiti and Syria and Border Asylum Turnbacks

On June 25, 2026, the Supreme Court issued two 6-3 immigration rulings favoring the administration. In Mullin v. Doe, the Court held that the Temporary Protected Status statute bars courts from reviewing non-constitutional challenges to a TPS termination, clearing the administration's move to end protections for about 350,000 Haitians and roughly 6,000 Syrians. In a companion case, Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the Court held that a person standing on the Mexican side of the border has not yet "arrived in" the United States, allowing officers to turn away asylum seekers before they reach US soil. Justice Samuel Alito wrote both majority opinions; the three liberal justices dissented.

Lower courts had earlier found that the administration skipped a required interagency review of country conditions before ending TPS. The Supreme Court did not decide whether that review occurred; it held instead that courts cannot hear such statutory claims, which advocates say could insulate future TPS decisions from judicial review. Employment authorization tied to the Haitian and Syrian designations was set to lapse around July 1, 2026, and the metering ruling narrows access to the asylum process at ports of entry.

Because the Supreme Court is the final court of appeal, advocates said the principal remaining recourse is Congress; the House passed a Haitian TPS extension through 2029 in April that the Senate has not taken up.