Trump Asks Justices to Confirm His Power to End Amnesty for Haitian Migrants
President Donald Trump’s deputies asked the Supreme Court to certify his authority to end a quasi-amnesty for thousands of Haitian migrants in the United States.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an “emergency request” for the Supreme Court to “lift a judge’s decision” preventing the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) amnesty for roughly 350,000 Haitian migrants, according to Reuters.
In the filing, the DOJ claimed that the “lower courts were ‘again attempting to block major executive-branch policy initiatives,” according to the outlet:
The Justice Department in its filing in the Haiti case said lower courts were “again attempting to block major executive-branch policy initiatives in ways that inflict specific harms to the national interest and foreign relations.”
As it did in the Syria case, the administration suggested that the Supreme Court take up and hear arguments on the underlying legal issue given that “stop-and-start litigation over TPS terminations has become endemic.”
“Unless the court resolves the merits of these challenges – issues that have now been ventilated in courts nationwide – this unsustainable cycle will repeat again and again, spawning more competing rulings and competing views of what to make of this court’s interim order,” the Justice Department wrote.
JUST IN: Trump admin asks #SCOTUS to lift lower court order blocking plan to revoke temporary protected status for citizens of Haiti living in US. About 350,000 people impacted, although they could seek other status to remain. Doc: https://t.co/j4FmSvCvKJ
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) March 11, 2026
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