Temporary Protection Status (TPS) was always supposed to be … TEMPORARY. Which was the crux of the matter when President Trump ended that protection for Haitians and Syrians. Which immediately led to pearl clutching and court cases all over the place. Well, SCOTUS just told everyone that President Trump CAN proceed with ending TPS.

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation.

The decision overturns lower court orders and allows the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly end temporary protected status, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries.

The Trump administration argued judges that can’t second-guess immigrations officials’ decisions about the protections, which were intended to be temporary.

Immigration attorneys said the countries remain unsafe to return, and the administration ended them in an unlawfully hasty process tinged by racial animus. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants were abducting and eating dogs and cats.

The Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court after judges postponed the end of the program for about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. The high court sided with the administration before and allowed the end of the program for people from Venezuela.

Again, this status, conferred on people from Haiti and Syria was always intended to be temporary. As in … short term. It was also never intended as a path to citizenship. 

What the program ended up doing was creating a drain on taxpayers and resources from the local to the national level. Everything from food, places to live, work, translators, schools needing to add ESL tutors, healthcare, and more. Springfield, Ohio is a prime example.

How many were conferred this status? Read the above again, 356,000 from Haiti and Syria. Now, how long has Temporary Protection Status been in place for those two countries and others?

Temporary Protected Status is permanent:

Somalia: 35 years
Sudan: 28 years
Honduras: 26 years
Nicaragua: 26 years
El Salvador: 24 years
Haiti: 16 years
South Sudan: 15 years
Syria: 14 years
Nepal: 11 years
Yemen: 11 years

And Americans pay for it.

Send them home. End the scam.

— C3 (@C_3C_3) April 16, 2026

NONE of that resembles the definition of Temporary. None of it. 

The New York Times is having a snit fit over this. Their whiny headline speaks volumes as to where the rag stands on this issue. 

Supreme Court Lets Trump End Deportation Protection for Haitians and Syrians

President Trump has pushed to rescind Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of people from countries convulsed by humanitarian crises.

The article itself runs right to the three justices who dissented. All three of whom wave the ‘this is racist!’ flag in their dissent. 

The three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Elena Kagan quoting extensively from Mr. Trump’s derogatory comments about Haitian immigrants.

“The statements fairly shout, in their racial undertones and overtones alike, that race entered into the president’s resolve to remove Haitians from this country,” she wrote.

Nice try ladies, but no cigar. Temporary means exactly that. Temporary. And it is NOT racist at all to tell 350,000 Haitians (probably more given many have had children and grandchildren over the last 16 years) that they need to go back to their home country and start working to make it better.

Or, as some have demonstrated, take their grift and criminal scams out of the U.S.

Last year, as part of the largest health care fraud takedown in history, prosecutors charged Haitian national Jean Jethro Alexandre with a scheme that ran two clinics as fraudulent prescription mills. On paper, the clinics treated patients for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. In reality, according to the Department of Justice prosecutors, the clinics existed to harvest the deep discounts that the 340B Drug Discount Program confers on HIV medications. This spring, Alexandre was sentenced with prison time and ordered to pay $14.3 million in restitution.

If you’re wondering how Alexandre, a citizen of Haiti, can come to the United States and easily rake in tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money through criminal fraud, your answer is the 340B Drug Discount Program.

It’s fairly easy to surmise that Alexandre was in the U.S. under the auspices of the Temporary Protection Status program. And he’s not the only criminal out there who has been living large off of our tax dollars. 

According to activist immigration attorneys, “America lost.” 

No we didn’t. America won today. BILLIONS of dollars have been spent on 356,000 people for the last 16 years. And what has anyone in Congress, Republican or Democrat done with this program and the abuse of it? Nothing. 

SCOTUS just ruled that the President CAN end Temporary Protection Status. And, it needs to be reversed. But the only that that will happen is if Congress actually does their damned job. 

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