The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow the termination of Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitians living legally in the United States. Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an emergency petition seeking to overturn a lower court decision that blocked the administration from ending the program. The move is part of a broader effort to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti, Venezuela, and other countries.

Created by Congress in 1990, TPS provides temporary legal status to immigrants from countries facing natural disasters, armed conflicts, or other crises. Haiti first received the designation after the 2010 earthquake and has had it extended multiple times, including under the Biden administration following the 2021 presidential assassination. The Trump administration had originally set a February 3 expiration date for Haitian protections.

Lower courts have blocked the termination, finding the administration failed to consider ground conditions and may have acted with racial animus. Immigrant rights advocates argue that conditions in Haiti have worsened since 2010, with gang violence, political instability, and food shortages making return unsafe. The Supreme Court has yet to rule on similar emergency petitions regarding Syrian and Venezuelan immigrants.