The U.S. Supreme Court handed the Trump administration and America a massive victory on Thursday when, in a case titled Mullin vs. Doe, it defenestrated attempts by the open-borders lobby to turn Temporary Protected Status granted to some 1.3 million refugees into a permanent condition; see SCOTUS Hands Trump Major Immigration Win - Says Courts Can't Second-Guess Most TPS Decisions – RedState.
Conceived as a temporary stopgap in response to a humanitarian crisis abroad, the program quickly became a backdoor to permanent residency. Since the Trump administration took the reins in January 2025, the Department of Homeland Security has set about clearing the detritus of TPS out of the U.S. TPS authorization for Venezuela, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Nepal, Honduras, Burma (or whatever they're calling it this week), and Haiti have all been revoked. Many of these revocations have been successfully challenged in federal courts, even though the law clearly states that federal courts may not review TPS decisions. This is a partial list of TPS decisions that rogue federal judges have illegally halted.
- South Sudan. African Communities Together et al. v. Noem. District of Massachusetts. January 30, 2026.
- Ethiopia. African Communities Together et al. v. Noem. District of Massachusetts. January 30, 2026.
- Nicaragua. National TPS Alliance et al. v. Noem. Northern District of California. December 31, 2025
- Nepal. National TPS Alliance et al. v. Noem. Northern District of California. December 31, 2025.
- Honduras. National TPS Alliance et al. v. Noem. Northern District of California. December 31, 2025.
- Burma. Aung DOE et al. v. Noem. Northern District of Illinois. January 23, 2026.
- Syria. Dahlia Doe v. Noem. Southern District of New York. November 19, 2025.
- Haiti. Miot et al. v. Trump. District of Columbia. February 2, 2026.
While the Syrian case was consolidated with the Haitian case for argument, most of the commentary has focused on Haiti because of the way the swarm of Haitians inserted into Springfield, Ohio, hit the news for inflating housing prices out of the reach of locals, thanks to massive subsidies, while simultaneously depressing wages; see Kitties on the Barbie – RedState.
Haitians in Springfield became an iconic moment during the 2024 presidential campaign.
This, in turn, inspired one of the best political songs ever.Yesterday's Supreme Court decision should have been hailed as a triumph for the rule of law as Justice Samuel Alito, writing the majority decision, noted "Section 1254a(b)(5)(A) provides that '[t]here is no judicial review of any determination of the [Secretary of Homeland Security] with re spect to the designation, or termination or extension of a designation, of a foreign state.'" It wasn't.Ohio's Republican Governor Mike DeWine immediately sniveled that losing Haitians would devastate Ohio's economy, which, in his view, is based on no-skill/low-skill non-citizen labor.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued the following statement on the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Mullin v. Doe, regarding Temporary Protected Status (TPS):
— Jonathan Martin (@jmart) June 25, 2026
"Today, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling allowing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to be…
"Today, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling allowing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to be canceled or expire.
Today’s decision is a legal decision. As I have stated in the past, the policy to remove these individuals from this country is a mistake.
As a result of today’s ruling, the over 10,000 Haitians who have been living in Ohio (mostly in the Springfield area) legally through TPS will now be here illegally and will be subject to immediate deportation. This also means that while these Haitians were working and contributing to our community and economy yesterday, today it is now illegal to employ them.
The situation in Haiti could hardly be much worse. The violent gangs run most of the country. The government barely functions. And, the economy is in shambles.
Further, our federal government has an advisory against traveling to Haiti, and our Federal Aviation Administration prohibits U.S. carriers from flying there because of the danger to planes of being shot at by the gangs.
But, more importantly, changing the immigration status of these individuals is not in the best interest of the United States nor Ohio."
Not to put too fine a point on it, but violent gangs running the country has been Peak Haiti since independence, except for the 13-year reign of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier when only one violent gang ran the country, the government owned and operated Tonton Macoute.
Given the demonstrable damage done to Springfield in terms of skyrocketing housing costs driving Americans out of apartments and rentals, swamping the schools with kids who are not ready, overburdening healthcare resources, surging use of public assistance, and an increased production of Haiti's signature commodity, that would be crime, DeWine's obsequious defense of non-citizen Haitian immigrants is somewhat shocking; see Ohio Governor Mike DeWine Thinks Haitian Migrants Are a Good Deal for Springfield – RedState. In fact, DeWine has been criticized for dismissing and belittling concerns about the downside.
The people I met in Springfield were begging DeWine to take action so their adult kids could rent houses occupied by a dozen of Haitians at a time. He ignored them and treated them like petulant children. This result could not be better deserved. https://t.co/gdI4f52HoS
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) June 25, 2026
His concerns have been ICE operations and the economic impact if the Haitians were sent home. Given what we've seen in Minneapolis, it is a safe bet that the majority of the alleged "economic" activity doesn't involve "agriculture and manufacturing," but rather rampant, industrial-scale entitlement fraud.
This episode underscores two salient facts about immigration in America that have become incredibly obvious since President Trump returned to the White House. The first is that illegal immigration is a feature, not a bug, of our immigration system. The loopholes made available to illegals rendered immigration enforcement impotent. You might not believe in "The Great Replacement," but if such a thing did exist, how would it differ from the system President Trump inherited? The second lesson is that many Republicans are indistinguishable from Democrats on the issue of importing cheap, captive labor and supporting that labor with tax dollars laundered as entitlements. The only difference is the Democrats insist on letting them vote, but, hell, Mike Dewine vetoed a bill that would have verified the identity of voters who vote by mail, so maybe there isn't any difference.
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