Supreme Court and Federal Courts

Lawyers for Haitian Temporary Protected Status holders have alerted the U.S. Supreme Court to three internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services emails they say undercut the Trump administration's stated reasons for ending TPS for Haiti, in a case the justices will hear April 29 alongside a challenge to the Syria termination. In an April 9 filing, the plaintiffs cite a September 2025 email from a USCIS researcher saying her supervisor was "forcing" her to add a section claiming TPS acts as a "pull factor" for illegal migration, even though she wrote there was no empirical evidence to support that claim and that she wanted to go on record with her concern. A second email from the same researcher says a reference to terrorism 'hits' for Haiti was removed from a DHS analysis because it did not support 'the termination argument,' while a third email from another employee notes DHS data showing only 0.06% of Haitian TPS holders had any public-safety record and none were tied to known or suspected terrorists. Those documents follow lower-court rulings, including one by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, finding former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's Haiti decision likely violated the Administrative Procedure Act by ignoring the factual record, and come as the Trump administration presses the high court to rein in judges it says are improperly second-guessing TPS terminations. The case could set nationwide standards for how rigorously future administrations must document and justify ending humanitarian protections for immigrants from countries affected by disasters and conflict.