Trump admin asks Supreme Court to end temporary protected status for Syrian migrants

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President Donald Trump's administration is pushing for the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to nix temporary protected status for Syrians.

"This application marks the third time that the government has been compelled to seek a stay from this Court after lower Courts have baselessly blocked the Secretary of Homeland Security's determinations regarding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) just before they took effect," the filing declares.

The filing notes that the high court previously issued stays amid legal wranglings pertaining to the administration's move to terminate TPS for Venezuela.

Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

"Both times, this Court’s orders reflected that the government is likely to succeed on the merits of its purely legal arguments—including that 8 U.S.C. 1254a(b)(5)(A) expressly bars judicial review of direct or indirect challenges to the Secretary’s TPS determinations."

"And both times, the Court’s orders reflected that the government established irreparable harm and that the balance of the equities weighed in its favor," the administration argued. "The lower courts' arrogation of core Executive Branch prerogatives irreparably harms the government, and respondents' alleged harms were inherent in the temporary nature of the program that Congress designed."

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem holds a news conference at Miami International Airport on Jan. 31, 2026 in Miami, Florida.  (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's attempt to terminate TPS for Syria last year was stymied in court.

The move was supposed to take effect in November, according to the notice in which Noem declared that "the designation of Syria for Temporary Protected Status is terminated effective at 11:59 p.m., local time, on November 21, 2025."

This is a breaking news article and will be updated.

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.