By John Kruzel
WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it will hear arguments over the legality of a move by Donald Trump’s administration to revoke temporary legal protections for more than 350,000 Haitians and about 6,100 Syrians living in the United States, part of the Republican president’s mass deportation agenda.
The justices kept in place two judicial orders that have blocked the administration’s move to end Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitian and Syrian nationals while legal challenges to the policies proceed.
The cases will be argued next month.
Trump, pursuing a policy of mass deportations since returning to office in January 2025, has moved to strip certain migrants of temporary legal protections previously provided to them by the U.S. government for humanitarian reasons, expanding the pool of possible deportees.
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has moved to end TPS status for about a dozen countries, saying it was always meant to be temporary.
The Supreme Court in October let the administration terminate TPS for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.
Kristi Noem, a Trump appointee then serving as secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, determined in November 2025 that there were “no extraordinary and temporary conditions” in Haiti that would prevent Haitian migrants from returning to the Caribbean country. The U.S. State Department currently warns against travel to Haiti “due to kidnapping, crime, terrorist activity, civil unrest and limited healthcare.”
Noem previously announced in September that Syria’s TPS designation would end, noting that the situation there “no longer meets the criteria for an ongoing armed conflict that poses a serious threat to the personal safety of returning Syrian nationals.”
(Reporting by John Kruzel; Editing by Will Dunham)
