{"id":3639,"date":"2026-06-26T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:38:48","slug":"immigration-hard-liners-repeatedly-lost-in-court-before-justices-ruled-in-their-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3639","title":{"rendered":"Immigration hard-liners repeatedly lost in court before justices ruled in their favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>WASHINGTON &#8212; The Supreme Court decision that will allow the deportation of Haitians and Syrians protected under a federal humanitarian program was the culmination of a long campaign by conservatives whose efforts to dismantle it had been blocked by lower courts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3637\">Obama says he occupies a \u2018suite\u2019 in Trump\u2019s head<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is a victory 10 years in the making,\u201d Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told Fox News on Thursday. \u201cWe can finally remove these Haitian illegal migrants from the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Immigration hard-liners in the Trump administration have long railed against the program, known as Temporary Protected Status, and have accused previous administrations of abusing it. They say the program allowed some migrants to stay in the United States for years even though the protections, as the name implies, were meant to be temporary.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Now the administration can unwind the status, not only for the nearly 350,000 Haitians and hundreds of Syrians directly affected by the ruling, but also nationals from several other countries in the coming months, including El Salvador and Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Hundreds of thousands of immigrants with valid status could soon be vulnerable to expulsion, handing the administration a large new pool to target in its mass deportation plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThousands of people protected from immigration detention and deportation are now vulnerable to it,\u201d said Ahilan Arulanantham, one of the attorneys involved in the TPS litigation. \u201cAt their next check-in, or if they encounter an ICE officer on the street, they could be detained and deported.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thursday\u2019s ruling by the Supreme Court gives the White House wide latitude to end a program that officials have blamed for holding back their efforts to tighten up immigration laws and expel undesirable groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s an affirmation that the rule of law actually applies here,\u201d Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security during the first Trump administration, said of the Supreme Court decision. Wolf said the ruling also affirmed that \u201cthis program is supposed to be temporary in nature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>TPS extended protections to certain nationalities whose countries were deemed by the U.S. government to have unsafe conditions, such as wars and natural disasters. For instance, Haiti received TPS status after the 2010 earthquake devastated the country; the status was extended several times, and the number of people allowed to apply for it ballooned during the Biden administration after the country fell into conflict in 2021. Efforts by the Trump administration to end the protections for Haitians nearly a decade ago were blocked by the courts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration enforcement, did not respond to questions about how it planned to respond to the ruling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3635\">Former Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty in classified files case<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Immigration and Customs Enforcement had previously considered an enforcement operation earlier this year in anticipation of Haitians losing the protections, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. After lower-court decisions blocked the administration from undoing TPS for certain countries, immigration officers received guidance instructing them to hold back on enforcement against citizens of those countries, according to internal documents obtained by The New York Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The guidance said Haitians with TPS \u201cmay not be removed despite having an administratively final removal order\u201d and that they \u201cmay not be detained on the basis of their immigration status alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Practical realities remain because the administration would have to find ways to ramp up deportations to countries where doing so may be difficult, including Haiti, where there is ongoing conflict. Since early last year, just over 2,000 Haitians have been deported, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Supreme Court ruling comes after months of criticism by Trump administration officials directed at courts, which they contended had overstepped in blocking their efforts to strip groups of their protected status. Miller, an architect of some of Trump\u2019s most aggressive immigration policies, was particularly incensed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen courts stepped in, they were violating explicit language that Congress had enacted,\u201d he asserted just weeks after a judge had stymied their effort to strip the deportation protections from Venezuelans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are living under judicial tyranny,\u201d Miller said a few months later on social media, after a judge again blocked the termination of the program, this time for immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Thursday, after the Supreme Court ruling, Miller was in a better mood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When asked by reporters outside the White House whether immigrants who lose TPS would be vulnerable to deportation, he was blunt: \u201cWell, of course, if you no longer have status in this country, then you\u2019re supposed to be deported.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Miller was unmoved when asked whether the administration considered Haiti a safe place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHaitians live in Haiti,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, it would be crazy for us to say that Haitians couldn\u2019t live in Haiti. It\u2019s their country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3633\">Game 80: Yankees at Red Sox lineups and notes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><i>This article originally appeared in <\/i><i>The New York Times<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday\u2019s ruling gives the White House wide latitude to end a program that officials have blamed for holding back their efforts to tighten up immigration laws and expel undesirable groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Immigration hard-liners repeatedly lost in court before justices ruled in their favor - 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