Judge Clears Path to Deport 350,000 Haitians After TPS Ends

A federal judge on Wednesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to move forward with deporting roughly 350,000 Haitians after ending their Temporary Protected Status, closing out a months-long legal fight that ran through the Supreme Court.

What the judge ruled

A federal judge lifted a stay on the termination of temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, and the order from U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes means that between 330,000 to 350,000 Haitians living in the United States have lost their Temporary Protected Status.

Reyes had blocked the federal government from ending TPS for Haitians in February, but the Supreme Court in June ruled the law restricts courts from reviewing decisions by the Department of Homeland Security to end TPS protections.

How we got here

The Supreme Court ruled in June by a 6-3 vote that TPS determinations are not subject to judicial review under federal law, which could impact immigrants from Haiti, Syria and other countries that the U.S. State Department considers highly dangerous.

Haiti first received TPS after the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake, but the designation remained in place for 16 years through multiple administrations, and the Biden administration later expanded and extended protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians already living in the U.S.

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What it means on the ground

Work authorization for Haitians expired last week, along with some driver’s licenses for immigrants residing in Ohio and Florida, two states that have passed laws that tie eligibility for a driver’s license to immigration status.

The case being overseen by Reyes will still continue, with the Haitians continuing to press their claim that the administration acted with discriminatory intent when it nixed the protections.

The bigger immigration picture

More than 1.3 million people from 17 countries were living legally in the United States through the TPS program as of 2025, and since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, DHS has revoked the protections from at least seven of those countries.

In several other cases challenging the administration’s decision to end TPS for people from Ethiopia, Burma and South Sudan, judges have in recent weeks blocked the administration from moving forward while they weigh new legal claims.

Options market and stocks to watch

Watch for reaction across names with labor exposure to affected regions and immigration-adjacent sectors:

GEO and CXW: private prison and detention operators tend to see flow pick up on enforcement escalations.

WMT and TSN: watch for any labor-cost commentary from retailers and food processors with exposure to Florida and Ohio workforces.

MGM: hospitality names with heavy immigrant labor bases can be sensitive to enforcement headlines. For more, see other news.

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