Supreme Court Takes Up Cases Over Temporary Protected Status

The order brings the administration’s bid to end legal immigration status for people fleeing dangerous countries back to the high court.

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will hear oral arguments in the Trump administration’s attempt to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians.

The federal government has been trying for months to revoke the special status, which protects certain foreign nationals from deportation, but lower courts have stopped it.

The high court’s order agreeing to hear arguments rolled together two different cases, each of which requested an emergency ruling: Noem v. Dahlia Doe and Trump v. Miot, which focused on temporary protected status for Syrians and Haitians, respectively. The court plans to hear the cases in late April.

The Trump administration filed an emergency application in Miot last week, asking the Supreme Court to end protections for Haitians while it considered taking up the case. The administration claimed that a lower court ruling blocking it from terminating TPS was harming the national interest and foreign relations.

The government had filed an earlier emergency application for a similar case over protections for Syrian immigrants in February. In Monday’s order, the court denied the administration’s request to terminate the temporary protected status of Haitian and Syrian immigrants while the cases proceed — leaving legal protections in place for now.