The Supreme Court would listen to the arguments to resolve on and against the decision of the Donald Trump government to cancel the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, but the ruling issued by the highest court in the coming months It will affect the 1.3 million beneficiaries of the program from 17 countries. Trump canceled protections for nationals of 13 countries.
On the table is what we have called the ‘Trump doctrine’ which consists of delegalizing immigrants to detain and deport them. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) indicated that, taken together, the cancellations of TPS by the Trump administration “reflect the largest episode in United States history” of depriving people of their basic status, work permits and protection from deportation.
TPS grants work permits and protection from deportation to nationals who are in the United States and who come from countries that are at war or have experienced a natural disaster or other internal conditions that make it unsafe for their nationals to return.
And the TPS is just one of the programs chosen by Trump to implement his doctrine from delegalizing to deport. Their interest is not only to persecute undocumented immigrants, especially if they are of color, but also to reduce authorized immigration to the United States, and eliminate humanitarian programs such as TPS. Illinois Democratic Congresswoman Delia Ramírez indicated in a The USA’s Enlighten conference call that the Trump administration “wants to decide who is an American.”
Ramírez added that more than 174 DACA recipients have been deportedanother indication that for Trump there are no protections under any program.
The government of Trump announced the cancellation of TPS for nationals of 13 countriesincluding 72,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans who had protection from deportation and work permits since 1999. It also eliminated TPS for 348,000 Venezuelans; 521,000 Haitians, and more than 200,000 Salvadorans. Apart from the cancellation of humanitarian parole for half a million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.
Some courts have stopped the government’s actions and that is why the case reaches the Supreme Court, to decide the legality of the cancellation.
It is mostly about people who have been in the United States for decadesThey have established families, children and even grandchildren who are citizens, work, have their own businesses, pay taxes and are part of their communities.
According to a new report from fwd.us, “at the beginning of 2025 and at the beginning of Trump’s second term, almost 1.3 million people were TPS holders.” These people “live with 390,000 US citizen children and more than 410,000 US citizen adults.”
The fwd.us analysis notes that “TPS recipients contribute about $29 billion annually to the U.S. economy, in addition to paying $7.8 billion in combined federal, state and local taxes.”
It is not only about dislocating lives, families and losing income from paying taxes.
According to another report from the Migration Policy Institute, the administration’s restrictions “could translate into a drastic reduction in overall immigration levels just this year.” “And beyond that, given that birth rates in the United States are reaching historic lows, these measures threaten to lead the United States to demographic stagnation – or even decline – a situation not seen since 1918, when World War I and a major pandemic coincided.”
A reduced and older population poses economic challenges for the country.
According to the MPI, some of the measures that have reduced authorized immigration are: “travel bans and restrictions imposed on nationals of 39 countries; suspensions in the issuance of permanent visas affecting 75 countries; new research guidelines history that has caused a substantial drop in the granting of student visas; a $100,000 application fee for highly skilled workers with an H-1B visa; and the diversion of personnel who process immigration applications to the background checks of beneficiaries.”
The report adds that the Trump administration’s actions reflect “a vision of the world that considers immigrants of any status as a threat to the very social fabric of the country.”
“The National Security Advisor, Stephen Miller, has praised the Immigration Act of 1924, which severely restricted immigration for just 40 years. He has called for a ‘moratorium on immigration from third world countries’. And it has presented immigration as a threat to jobs, public safety and the shared culture of Americans,” the report adds.
A myopic and prejudiced vision with serious consequences at all levels.
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