The Temporary Protected Status program may effectively be over. Here's what we know.

Immigration The Temporary Protected Status program may effectively be over. Here's what we know. June 29, 20264:54 PM ET Ximena Bustillo Haitian flags are displayed in a store on June 25, 2026 in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration's effort to strip temporary protected status (TPS) from hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The future of the Temporary Protected Status program, and the legal status of 270,000 people who still have it, is at risk after a big Supreme Court ruling last week. The court's ruling allowed the Trump administration to move forward with cancelling TPS for two countries, Haiti and Syria. But it also underscored that the secretary of homeland security decides whether to grant someone this status, or end it, and it's not up to the courts to weigh in. That gives the Trump administration space to strip this status from hundreds of thousands of more people. Sponsor Message The Trump administration has already terminated TPS for 10 countries, so far affecting more than a million people. Four countries still have TPS designations, but they're set to expire later this year: Lebanon, El Salvador, Sudan, and Ukraine. "It certainly does seem like the number of people who have TPS will continue to decline in this administration," said Julia Gelatt, associate director of U.S. immigration policy at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. "We may even end up by the end of this year without anybody who has temporary protected status." About 330,000 people, mostly from Haiti and a fraction from Syria, are immediately affected by the June 25 ruling. The NPR Politics Podcast Trump's week in the courts – big wins and big losses Congress created TPS in 1990 to provide protection from deportation for people, regardless of legal status, whose countries are unsafe t...