Supreme Court Decision Strips Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants of TPS Work Permits, Threatening Families and Communities
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A recent Supreme Court ruling enables the administration to dismantle Temporary Protected Status, stripping about 350,000 Haitian TPS holders of their right to work starting Monday and putting countless others at risk later this year.
Last month, the Supreme Court issued a devastating ruling that cleared the way for the administration to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, a lifeline that has allowed people from crisis-affected countries to live and work legally in the United States. This decision will force roughly 350,000 TPS recipients from Haiti and several other nations to lose their work authorizations on Monday, with another 190,000 Salvadoran holders facing the same fate in September.
In a move that echoes the harshest anti-immigrant crackdowns, immigration officials are preparing enforcement actions as these vital permits expire. Reports indicate that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning sweeps in communities like Springfield, Ohio, where many Haitian TPS recipients have built their lives.
Business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have urgently called on Congress to intervene, warning that stripping work permits from a massive segment of the workforce—about 70% of TPS holders are employed, many in essential sectors like construction and health care—will devastate local economies and disrupt critical services. Even some Republican officials, such as Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, have voiced opposition to this cruel policy, while hardline conservatives like Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri and right-wing organizations continue to push for the end of TPS, ignoring the human cost and the program’s humanitarian origins.
TPS was established in 1990 under President George H.W. Bush to provide temporary protection for foreign nationals fleeing war or natural disasters, allowing them to remain in the United States until conditions improved. Today, that promise is being callously broken, threatening the safety, livelihoods, and dignity of hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their families.