What's next for immigrants with TPS status after Supreme Court ruling?

By — Maria Ramirez Uribe Maria Ramirez Uribe Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/whats-next-for-immigrants-with-tps-status-after-supreme-court-ruling Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter What's next for immigrants with TPS status after Supreme Court ruling? Politics Jul 9, 2026 6:14 PM EDT The legal status of nearly 1.3 million immigrants facing war or environmental disasters in their home countries is up in the air following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. In a 6-3 decision, the high court ruled last month that the Homeland Security secretary's decision to grant, extend or terminate a country's TPS designation, which lets people from eligible countries legally live and work in the U.S. for periods of six to 18 months, cannot be reviewed by the courts. Educate your inbox Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. The case focused on former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's decision to terminate TPS for nearly 350,000 Haitians and more than 6,000 Syrians. But legal experts who spoke with PBS News said the ruling is likely to affect beneficiaries from other TPS designated countries. The Supreme Court's decision means many TPS holders will be at "almost immediate risk, or immediate risk, depending on the country, of arrest, detention, and deportation," said Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. "And not deportation to a safe country," she said. "Overwhelmingly, individuals with TPS are facing deportation to countries that are too dangerous to return to, as determined by our State Department." READ MORE: Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end legal protections for Haitians and Syrians In the notices ending TPS for Haiti and Syria , Noem said neither country met the conditions necessary for the designation, and that allowing beneficiaries to temporarily stay in the U.S. "is contrary to the national interest of the United States." Haiti and Syria both hold "Level 4" advisories from the U.S. State Department warning Americans not to travel to those countries due to risk of crime, terrorism, kidnapping and unrest. "The Court did not rule that ending TPS for Haiti or Syria was sound or that conditions there are safe," James Sample, law professor at Hofstra University, said in an email. "It ruled that those judgments belong to the DHS Secretary and are largely insulated from judicial second-guessing." Watch the PBS News Hour segment in the player above. READ MORE: Rights lawyers sue Ghana over third-country deportation deal with Trump administration In the weeks since the decision, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has set an expiration date for most TPS beneficiaries' work permits. TPS holders from seven countries, including Haiti and Syria, are set to lose their ability to legally work on July 10. However, that date is