The Trump administration has attempted to revoke temporary protected status for immigrants from multiple countries, but lower courts continue to find ways to block it despite a pair of wins for the Trump administration at the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court gave the green light to ending TPS for immigrants from Venezuela twice, but lower courts have still blocked the Trump administration from ending the status for various other countries, including Haiti. A federal district court judge recently blocked Trump’s effort to end TPS for immigrants temporarily in the country from Haiti, even though the status was extended to those immigrants due to an earthquake that struck Haiti nearly 16 years ago. The Trump administration’s roadblocks have stemmed from a mix of their own procedural issues and unfriendly judges making policy decisions, rather than judicial decisions, according to legal experts.
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