The U.S. Supreme Court is stepping into a huge immigration fight this week: whether the Trump administration can terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti and Syria.
At the center of the dispute is a basic question: when Congress says TPS is temporary, who gets the final say on when it ends?
Here are the case basics, plus the administration’s stated rationale for ending both designations.
INA (8 U.S.C. § 1254a) explicitly gives the DHS Secretary the authority to terminate TPS for any country when, after a proper review of current conditions and interagency consultation, the Secretary determines the original extraordinary and temporary conditions no longer exist or… https://t.co/wmMy8dPHpi
— Matthew Kolken (@mkolken) February 3, 2026
If you’re not familiar with TPS, Cornell’s Legal Information Institute
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