The RecordExhibit 111
Ending temporary protections for 350,000 Venezuelans, then Haitians and others
Mixed rulings means: Courts have ruled both ways on parts of it.
Days into the term, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem cancelled a Biden-era extension of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela and moved to end it for about 350,000 people, then set terminations for Haiti, Syria and other countries.
What happened
TPS, created by Congress in 1990, lets people from countries in crisis stay and work legally. Roughly 270,000 people still held the status by mid-2026, and immigration lawyers say the program is effectively ending.
Where it stands
Lower courts repeatedly ruled against the terminations: a San Francisco judge blocked the Venezuela cancellation, and in January 2026 the Ninth Circuit held that DHS had no authority to cancel the earlier extensions. But the Supreme Court let the Venezuela termination take effect in May and again in October 2025, and on June 25, 2026, it ruled 6 to 3 that courts generally cannot review a secretary's decision to end a country's TPS, clearing the way to end protections for Haitians and Syrians. Haiti's TPS ended on July 27, 2026.
The administration's side
DHS said conditions in Venezuela had improved in public health, crime and the economy, and that keeping the status was contrary to the national interest. The administration says the lower-court judges who blocked the terminations were engaging in political activism.
Sources
Permanent link: https://unredactedrecord.com/e/tps/