June 25, 2026, New York – In response to today’s Supreme Court ruling denying jurisdiction over certain claims challenging termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria, the Center for Constitutional Rights – which represents immigrants challenging the termination of TPS for Yemen – released the following statement: 

This is the kind of purely political ruling that the conservative supermajority pretends to abhor yet regularly supports. The Court has wrongly chosen to take power away from Congress and hand it to Donald Trump. The TPS statute places an array of restrictions and requirements on the executive branch, yet this ruling takes away the ability of Congress to enforce them. It makes no sense, which is why 16 lower courts ruled the other way. The right wing of the Court has bent the law to allow the administration to remove another 1.3 million immigrants from the country who had protected status even though all were vetted and many have been here for years and have children who are U.S. citizens. This ruling will force tens of thousands of people to face the dangers that they fled, from war to torture to famine.

The right-wing majority only sees race when it’s being considered to address the effects of slavery and systemic racism. When there is a clear pattern of racism – when the government is systematically targeting and discriminating against non-white people – the six conservatives go willfully blind. This is an administration that has ended refugee resettlement except for white South Africans, whose president and cabinet members call Somalis “garbage,” spread lies about Haitians eating pets, call African nations “shithole” countries, demean refugees from Latin America as rapists, terrorists, and mental patients, and call for a crusade against Muslims. To claim that this pattern of racism is unrelated to the attack on TPS for people from predominantly non-white countries is preposterous. This ruling will kill people.

For more information, see the case page.