Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Trump's Bid to End Deportation Protections for Haitians and Syrians

On March 16, 2026, the Supreme Court granted review in Noem v. Doe (No. 25-952) and Trump v. Miot (No. 25-1084), taking up whether federal courts have any authority to review the Homeland Security Secretary's decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Syrian and Haitian nationals. The Court granted the administration's request for expedited treatment, setting full briefing and argument within six weeks and allowing the cases to bypass the ordinary course of lower-court proceedings. More than a million TPS holders were then challenging terminations covering Haiti, Syria, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The administration had moved to end the status for every country it considered.

The question presented is one of judicial reviewability rather than the merits of any individual termination: if the secretary's decision is unreviewable, the statutory criteria Congress set in 1990 for extending or ending TPS become unenforceable in court.

The Court heard argument in April 2026 and on June 25, 2026 allowed the administration to end removal protections for Syrian and Haitian nationals.