Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued two 6-3 rulings that will upend the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. In Mullin v. Doe, the Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 350,000 Haitians and thousands of Syrians — stripping them of work authorization and deportation protections — while also ruling that courts cannot review most TPS termination decisions, eliminating any meaningful legal recourse. In Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the Court revived the administration’s border “metering” policy, holding that asylum seekers who are physically blocked from setting foot on U.S. soil have not legally “arrived” here and therefore have no right to apply for asylum. Together, these decisions hand the administration unchecked authority to shut out the vulnerable and displace communities that have been part of this country for years. 

What Our Members Are Saying 

Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), drew a direct line from these rulings to history: “This is the same cruelty that shut out Jews fleeing the Holocaust not very long ago. As Jews who have experienced both persecution and the hope of safety in America, we know that closing our door to those in need abandons our fundamental values — while advancing a dangerous, extremist agenda that threatens all of us.” JCPA also named the ideology behind the policies: “At the core of these policies are white supremacist, xenophobic, racist, and antisemitic conspiracy theories that have fueled violence against not only immigrants, but Jews, Latinos, Black people, and so many others.” 

Kica Matos, President of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), was direct about the scope of the damage: “Together, these decisions represent a stunning betrayal of our commitment to welcoming those fleeing danger, with particularly devastating impact to Black and brown immigrants. These decisions impact all of us — they will harm all our communities, including schools, employers, and our economy. Congress must act now to pass legislation that puts TPS holders and other immigrants who are deeply rooted in our communities on a pathway to citizenship.” 

Maya Wiley, President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, put the racial double standard starkly: “White South Africans are welcome. Haitians and Syrians are not? The administration has doubled down on its racist and xenophobic behavior, and the Court once again has endorsed those worst tendencies. The Roberts’ Court and the Trump administration will be remembered for their cruelty and inhumanity. These attacks are trying to make us too scared to fight back. But we are stronger than that, and our fight is not over.” 

Voices Across the Movement 

The following organizations are not CHN members, but valued partners who have also spoken out. 

Ann Toback, CEO of the Workers Circle, connected the ruling to her organization’s own founding: “Haitian and Syrian people fled danger and unremitting violence to seek freedom and safety that the United States offered. This decision makes them sitting ducks for violent abduction and detention by ICE, then deportation into chaos and for some, unto death in their home countries. The Workers Circle’s Eastern European Jewish founders fled pogroms and persecution to seek safe haven on these shores. This decision today is a sickening reversal of all we stand for as a nation.” 

Human Rights First condemned both rulings as decisions that “eliminate legal protections for people seeking safety and allow the Trump administration to advance its anti-immigrant agenda, dismantling long-standing humanitarian safeguards, and facilitating the administration’s mass deportation campaign.” 

John Slocum, Executive Director of the Refugee Council USA, framed the global moment: “At a moment when the world is watching the United States host the World Cup and celebrate the unifying power of global community, this decision sends a chillingly different message: that people who fled war, political instability, and persecution can have their legal protections stripped away with little regard for the consequences. These rulings are a profound moral and policy failure. History will remember how we responded when families fleeing danger asked for protection.” 

Rebecca Cassler, senior litigation attorney at the American Immigration Council, was blunt: “Cruelty is not a substitute for real solutions. Blocking people from seeking asylum at official ports of entry will do nothing to fix our broken immigration system; it only makes things more chaotic and dangerous for vulnerable families.” 

CHN Stands With Those Affected 

Over 350,000 Haitian and Syrian TPS holders now face deportation with no path to challenge it in court — and the nearly 1.3 million TPS holders from 17 countries are next in line. Haitian TPS holders alone contribute an estimated $5.9 billion to the U.S. economy and $1.6 billion in taxes annually. Healthcare workers, educators, and caregivers will lose their jobs overnight. At the border, asylum seekers can now be physically turned away before they can ask for protection. 

CHN stands with JCPA, NILC, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Workers Circle, RCUSA, the American Immigration Council, Human Rights First, Al Otro Lado, and the many organizations refusing to accept these rulings as the final word. Congress must pass a pathway to citizenship for TPS holders and restore meaningful access to asylum. We will keep fighting until it does.