Haitian immigrants ask Supreme Court to dismiss TPS case over new evidence
Lawyers for Haitian immigrants filed a motion Tuesday asking the Supreme Court to dismiss the Trump administration’s effort to strip Temporary Protected Status from more than 330,000 Haitians, NPR reported . The justices are expected to rule on the administration’s request by the end of June.
The motion points to newly released Department of Homeland Security documents that the lawyers say show the termination of Haiti’s TPS designation was “a preordained outcome.” According to the filing, career staff recommended keeping the designation but were overruled by a political appointee, in a departure from standard practice. The plaintiffs argue the new material undercuts DHS’s stated justification and confirms the decision relied on false statements and a failure to follow federal law.
If the program ends, hundreds of thousands of Haitians who have lived and worked legally in the US could lose their status and face removal. The late-stage motion is an attempt to reframe the case for the justices before they rule, by casting the administration’s rationale as pretextual rather than a routine policy judgment.