The United States Supreme Court today ruled 6-3 that the Trump administration may proceed with terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Haiti and Syria, holding that the courts have no authority to review how such decisions are made.

“This is a deeply painful day for hundreds of thousands of families who have built their lives here lawfully, paid taxes, cared for our communities, and who now face the prospect of losing everything,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Global Refuge.

The ruling clears the way for the administration to strip legal status and work authorization from roughly 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, and depending on how broadly it is read, threatens protections for more than a million people from seventeen countries.

“We are deeply troubled by the reach of this ruling, which extends beyond Haiti and Syria to every TPS designation,” continued Vignarajah. “Global Refuge will continue to stand with TPS holders and their families, and to make the case in every forum still open to us that protecting people fleeing catastrophe is both who we are as a nation and what the law was written to do.”

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