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By Staff Reporter | NewsAmericasNow.com
News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C, Thurs. June 25, 2206: The United States Supreme Court today, June 25th, cleared the path for the potential deportation of 350,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians – ruling 6-3 along ideological lines that the Trump administration has the legal authority to end Temporary Protected Status for both groups in the highly watched Haiti TPS case.
The decision comes as the Trump administration has moved to terminate TPS for nationals of 13 out of 17 countries that held the designation when President Biden left office – part of what the administration describes as a broader crackdown on immigration.
For the Haitian diaspora – and particularly for the hundreds of thousands of Haitian Americans who have built lives, careers, and families in the United States under TPS protections – the ruling represents one of the most consequential legal setbacks in recent memory.
The Ruling
Writing for the 6-3 majority, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. held that federal law prohibits courts from second-guessing an administration’s determination to strip TPS protections. “This text is clear, and its plain meaning is very broad,” Alito wrote, as quoted in the ruling.
The court also rejected claims that the administration’s decision to end TPS for Haitians was driven by racial hostility – a finding that drew a blistering response from the court’s three liberal justices.
“The Statements Fairly Shout”
Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the three dissenting justices, quoted extensively from President Trump’s own public statements about Haitian immigrants in making the case that race had entered into the administration’s decision.
The dissent cited Trump’s false accusations during the 2024 campaign that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, ate their neighbors’ pets – a claim that was widely debunked – and his December comments describing Haitian immigrants as undesirable because they come from a “filthy, dirty, disgusting” country.
“The statements fairly shout, in their racial undertones and overtones alike, that race entered into the president’s resolve to remove Haitians from this country,” Kagan wrote, as quoted in the ruling.
The administration’s solicitor general D. John Sauer argued during oral arguments that Trump’s statements were “unilluminating” and referenced poverty and crime rather than race – and that federal law makes clear courts cannot second-guess the government’s TPS decisions regardless of the motivation behind them.
The majority agreed. The dissent did not.
What Temporary Protected Status Is
Viles Dorsainvil (R), Executive Director of the Haitian Support Center, and Associate Pastor Brandon Peterson (C) of Greater Grace Temple in Springfield, Ohio, listen to a prayer outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2026. The US Supreme Court agreed on March 16 to consider the Trump administration’s bid to strip Haitians and Syrians of temporary deportation protections. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced plans to end so-called Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for some 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)
Temporary Protected Status was created by Congress with bipartisan support in 1990 to provide temporary legal status to people whose home countries were deemed unsafe because of war, natural disasters, or other crises. The program allows TPS holders to live and work legally in the United States for periods of six to 18 months, with no limit on how many times a country’s designation can be renewed.
For Haiti – a country that has faced a devastating earthquake, political instability, and now widespread gang violence that has rendered parts of the country ungovernable – TPS had been repeatedly extended, becoming effectively permanent for hundreds of thousands of Haitian nationals living in the United States.
The program had similarly been extended repeatedly for Syrians, whose country has been consumed by civil war for over a decade.
CAIR REACTS
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants without any judicial review will harm families, destabilize communities, and place vulnerable individuals at risk.
CAIR also expressed disagreement with a conclusion by non-binding plurality of judges that there was likely insufficient evidence to conclude that racism motivated the TPS termination in violation of the Equal Protection Clause.
The ruling clears the way for the administration to end TPS protections for approximately 350,000 Haitians and more than 6,000 Syrians who have been living and working legally in the United States. TPS was created by Congress to protect people from deportation to countries facing war, natural disasters, or other extraordinary conditions. Haitians first received TPS after the devastating 2010 earthquake, while Syrians were granted TPS in 2012 because of the civil war in their homeland.
Last year, CAIR welcomed a federal court order delaying the Trump administration’s termination of TPS for Syria and warned that forcing Syrians to return prematurely could expose them to danger and family separation.
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said: “Temporary Protected Status was established to ensure that people are not forced to return to countries facing extraordinary and dangerous conditions. Ending these protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and thousands of Syrians will tear families apart, disrupt workplaces and communities, and place vulnerable individuals at risk.
“Many TPS holders have lived in our nation for years, raised American children, built businesses, contributed to our economy, and become integral members of their communities. Policies that target these families for deportation because of their race and ethnicity are contrary to our nation’s values.
“Congress should pursue legislative solutions to make clear that courts do indeed have the authority to review TPS termination decisions, to recognize the contributions of TPS recipients, and to protect families from unnecessary hardship and separation.”
What Happens Now
The Supreme Court’s ruling clears a legal path for deportations – but the timeline and process remain complex.
The ability of the government to quickly expel TPS holders will depend significantly on whether individuals already have deportation orders pending. In many instances TPS holders have not received such orders – which will allow them some ability to contest their removal from the country through the immigration court system.
Class action lawsuits had been filed by TPS holders – including engineers, students, doctors, and caregivers – who argued they could be killed if forced to return to Syria or Haiti. Lower court judges had sided with the Haitians and Syrians, finding that the homeland security secretary’s process was subject to court review and that her decisions had been preordained rather than based on meaningful analysis of country conditions.
The Supreme Court overruled those findings Thursday. The ruling is also likely to have significant implications for TPS holders from approximately a dozen other countries beyond Haiti and Syria.
The Broader Context
Thursday’s ruling arrives as part of a sweeping transformation of American immigration policy under the Trump administration – one that has fallen with particular force on Caribbean communities.
The administration has separately halted the resettlement of refugees and dramatically slowed the consideration of asylum claims. It has proposed tougher rules making work permits harder for immigrants to obtain. It has filed denaturalization cases against naturalized American citizens at an unprecedented pace – targeting 200 cases per month. And it has moved to end TPS for nationals of 13 countries.
The Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday – combined with its separate ruling last year allowing the administration to lift protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelans – signals that the legal architecture supporting humanitarian immigration protections is being dismantled with the blessing of the nation’s highest court.
For the 350,000 Haitians who have lived and worked legally in the United States under TPS – many of whom have been here for years, raised children who are American citizens, built businesses, and contributed to their communities – the ruling poses an existential threat to the lives they have built.
What Haitian TPS Holders Should Do Now
Immigration attorneys are urging Haitian TPS holders to take immediate action:
Consult a licensed immigration attorney – not a notario – about your specific situation and any alternative pathways to legal status.
Do not assume you must leave immediately – the process for actual deportation is complex and TPS holders without pending deportation orders retain some ability to contest removal.
Check whether you or your children qualify for other forms of relief – including US-born children, marriage to US citizens, or other visa categories.
Stay informed – the legal situation is evolving rapidly.
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Could New Royal Archive Evidence Strengthen CARICOM’s Reparations Case?
By Senior Staff Writer
NEW YORK, NY, Thurs. June 25, 2026: As Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley pushes a new reparations manifesto and the African Union launches its Decade of Reparations, newly examined historical records are raising fresh questions about Britain’s role in Caribbean slavery and whether the region’s case for reparatory justice may be entering a new phase.
For more than a decade, CARICOM governments have argued that the legacy of slavery continues to shape economic inequality, underdevelopment and social challenges across the Caribbean. Now, a new book by historian Brooke N. Newman, The Crown’s Silence, is adding fresh evidence to that conversation.
Drawing on records from the Royal Archives, the Royal African Company, the South Sea Company and other historical sources, Newman argues that the British monarchy was not merely aware of the transatlantic slave trade but actively invested in, financed and profited from it for generations.
The timing is significant. Last week in Ghana, on Juneteenth in the US, June 19th, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley unveiled an updated reparations manifesto at a conference in Ghana, strengthening CARICOM’s long-standing calls for reparatory justice and introducing new provisions addressing the impact of slavery on women and families.
The manifesto follows growing international attention to reparations after the African Union formally launched its Decade of Reparations (2026-2036), a global initiative aimed at advancing recognition, accountability and repair for the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans.
For supporters of reparatory justice, the significance of Newman’s research lies in its challenge to one of Britain’s long-standing defenses: that slavery was largely the work of private merchants and corporations rather than the state itself. According to Newman, archival records show that successive monarchs invested in and benefited financially from institutions central to the slave trade, potentially strengthening arguments that responsibility extended beyond individual traders to the Crown itself. Newman, reveals that from the 1560s to 1807, the British monarchy didn’t merely permit the transatlantic slave trade – they directly invested in it, designed it, and amassed vast royal wealth from the labor of millions of enslaved Africans.
Whether the findings ultimately alter legal arguments remains to be seen. However, they arrive at a moment when Caribbean governments are increasingly connecting reparations to broader discussions about economic development, climate justice, historical accountability and post-colonial sovereignty.
As several Caribbean nations continue to reassess constitutional ties to the British monarchy and calls for reparatory justice grow louder globally, the debate over history, accountability and repair appears far from over.
The June 19th event took place near a fortress in Accra, Ghana. The site was one of the locations connected to the transatlantic slave trade and served as a backdrop for the commemoration. African and Caribbean leaders are demanding financial compensation, debt cancellation and formal apologies from countries that benefited from the transatlantic slave trade after adopting a sweeping reparations plan at a conference in Ghana.
The 19-point framework calls for financial compensation, debt relief, a Global Reparations Fund and the return of looted cultural artifacts and ancestral remains. It also seeks reforms to international financial institutions that supporters say disadvantage Third World countries. The plan also urges African countries to preserve former slave forts and castles as memorial sites.
The proposal is expected to be presented at the next UN General Assembly as African and Caribbean nations step up a coordinated push for slavery reparations. “We recognize and honor the extensive efforts undertaken over generations by several governments, intergovernmental organizations, our forebearers, individuals and civil society partners across Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as in Europe and Asia in shaping the global reparations agenda,” the document states. “We adopt this document as a basis for global collaboration and commit to engaging in transparent, constructive and good faith dialogue in advancing reparations and reparatory justice among all state and non-state actors.”
According to advocates, at least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped and transported aboard European ships between the 15th and 19th centuries. Supporters of reparations argue the effects of slavery continue to be felt across Africa and the Caribbean generations later.