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Trump’s Decision To End Deportation Protections Is Not Racist, Supreme Court Rules

June 25, 2026/in Courts & Law, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Must Read, News, Policy, Social Issues, The Truth/by The Daily Caller

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump’s administration’s move to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for certain illegal immigrants was not “overtly racial,” and further, that “[t]he TPS statute bars judicial review of non-constitutional claims.”

Writing for a 6-3 majority, Associate Justice Samuel Alito held that the respondents — ostensibly two groups of unnamed Syrian and Haitian illegal immigrants who enjoyed deportation protections under a Biden-era TPS order — and the lower courts who ruled in their favor “offer no sound theories to overcome the plain meaning of the judicial-review bar.” However, Justice Alito goes on to address the argument made by the Haitians that the Trump administration’s decision to end TPS protections is challengeable as a constitutional claim, as the decision was allegedly based on racial animosity.

“Ironically, respondents themselves offer a race-neutral explanation for the Government’s action: namely, that the current administration, which has terminated every TPS designation that has come up for renewal, simply opposes the TPS program as it has been implemented in the past,” Alito writes. “None of the cited statements by either the President or the Secretary was overtly racial, and in substance all expressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justifications.”

The TPS program has existed in various forms since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1990. Over the past decades, the program — initially created to grant temporary deportation protections to illegal immigrants whose home countries have become too dangerous or unstable for them to be returned to — has faced allegations of abuse, with critics arguing deportation protections have been extended for some illegal immigrants well beyond what is considered reasonable.

Throughout 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved to end Biden-era extensions of TPS for several national origin groups of illegal immigrants, with groups from Haiti and Syria moving to sue the Trump administration over the revocations.

Chief Justice John Roberts — as well as Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett — joined Alito in the majority. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

AUTHOR

Will Upton

Senior Politics Editor

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EXCLUSIVE: DHS Strips Deportation Protections From Yemenis, Orders Them To Return Home

February 14, 2026/in Anti-Semitism, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Socialism, Terrorism, Violence, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

The Department of Homeland Security has revoked deportation protections for Yemenis living in the United States, ordering them to return home, according to a draft press release obtained by the Daily Caller.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced Friday that Yemen no longer meets the statutory requirements for Temporary Protected Status after a department review of conditions in the country. She said ending the designation would protect national security interests while returning the program to its original temporary intent.

“Allowing TPS Yemen beneficiaries to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interest,” Noem wrote. “We are prioritizing our national security interests and putting America first.”

The decision affects approximately 2,810 current TPS holders and another 425 with pending applications.

A win for the rule of law and vindication for the US Constitution. Under the previous administration, Temporary Protected Status was abused to allow violent terrorists, criminals, and national security threats into our nation.

TPS was never designed to be permanent, yet… pic.twitter.com/3t8rDiUcvz

— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) February 9, 2026

The move is the latest in a series of TPS terminations by the Trump administration. DHS ended protections for Somali nationals in January amid a fraud scandal in which some diaspora — particularly in Minnesota — have been accused of stealing millions in taxpayer dollars. In November, the department revoked status for South Sudanese nationals — some of whom face deportation after more than 14 years.

A country qualifies for TPS if it meets one of three statutory criteria: ongoing armed conflict, environmental disaster, or extraordinary and temporary conditions.

“Temporary” Protected Status for 61,000 immigrants.

Hondurans and Nicaraguans were granted protection after a 1999 hurricane. Nepalese were granted protected status in 2015.

Temporary doesn’t mean decades.

Time to go home. pic.twitter.com/iXYj0MS1X5

— Adam Johnston (@adamkjohnston) February 10, 2026

Yemen was designated in September 2015 after officials determined armed conflict made it unsafe for nationals to return. The designation is set to expire on March 3. Federal law requires DHS to review a country’s TPS status at least 60 days before expiration; Noem determined Yemen no longer qualified ahead of that deadline.

Yemeni TPS holders with no other lawful basis for remaining in the U.S. have 60 days from the Federal Register notice to voluntarily depart. After that window closes, DHS will have authority to arrest and deport those who remain without lawful status.

DHS is encouraging departing Yemenis to use the CBP Home app to report their exit. The app offers a free plane ticket, a $2,600 departure stipend, and the possibility of future legal immigration opportunities.

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Ashley Brasfield

Reporter

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Thousands of Somalis Face Deportation After Trump Administration Removes Protections

January 15, 2026/in Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Terrorism, Violence, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Signal

The Trump administration is ending the temporary protected status designation for Somalia, a move that will affect several thousand Somalis currently living in the U.S.

“Temporary means temporary,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.

“Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status,” the secretary continued. “Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests. We are putting Americans first.”

There are 2,471 Somali nationals living in the U.S. under temporary protected status and another 1,383 have pending applications, according to Fox News, which first reported the news Tuesday morning.

With the removal of the protections on Tuesday, Somalis living in the U.S. under the designation have until March 17 to leave the country.

Somalis were first granted the status in the U.S. in 1991 amid ongoing civil war in Somalia. The Biden administration renewed and extended the designation for 18 months in 2024.

The Trump administration’s decision to end the designation for Somalia follows reports of mass fraud schemes involving Somalis in the U.S., particularly in Minnesota.

A federal investigation in recent years uncovered a multimillion-dollar fraud operation involving the Minneapolis nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Officials have also found fraud in recent years in a Minnesota housing program and a program claiming to provide services to children with Autism.

A federal prosecutor recently estimated that Medicaid fraud in the state has topped $9 billion.

Of the 98 people that have been charged in Minnesota fraud cases, 85 are of Somali descent, according to the House Oversight Committee.

About 600 Somali nationals live in Minnesota under temporary protected status, Fox News Digital reports.

Most recently, online content creator Nick Shirley released a 42-minute video appearing to show daycares in Minnesota that had no children but had received millions of dollars in government funding.

“We uncovered over $110,000,000 in one day,” Shirley claimed.

The message to Somalians living in the U.S. under TPS is “clear,” according to DHS. “Go back to your own country, or we’ll send you back ourselves.”

AUTHOR

Virginia Allen

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November 23, 2025/in Anti-Semitism, Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Socialism, Terrorism, Violence/by Jihad Watch

Is he serious? Will he be able to make this stick?

Will ICE move in and deport large numbers of illegals?

Will Walz impede ICE’s operations?

This is in response to the autism scandal.

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Robert Spencer

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Jihad Interruptus: Trump Ends Temporary Protected Status for Thousands of Afghans

April 14, 2025/in Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, National Security, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

Planeloads of unvetted Afghans.

“The Biden regime brought them over in staggering numbers in the wake of its catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in the late summer of 2021. The party is over.”

The Party’s Over: Trump Ends Temporary Protected Status for Thousands of Afghans

By Robert Spencer, Apr 13, 2025:

The Biden regime brought them over in staggering numbers in the wake of its catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in the late summer of 2021. But now the party is drawing to a close.

Fox News reported Saturday that the Department of Homeland Security “doesn’t plan to renew Afghans’ Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which lasts six to 18 months and applies to people from countries that are war-torn or have a natural disaster or some other event that makes returning dangerous.” This will affect a massive number of people, but only a fraction of those Afghans who were brought over. Fox explains that “the U.S. military evacuated more than 82,000 Afghans from the country when the U.S. withdrew in 2021, and the Taliban took over,” but the ending of Temporary Protected Status will affect only 14,000 of them.

This is a wise act that is in accord with Trump’s concern for the well-being of Americans. We already knew that many, if not most, of the Afghans whom Biden’s handlers brought into the country were an unknown quantity from a land where terrorism is common.

As far back as Sept. 2021, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas explained that most of the Afghans who had been brought over here were not holders of Special Immigrant Visas (SIV), which were issued to people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan. “Of the over 60,000 individuals who have been brought into the United States” at that time, Mayorkas said, “and I will give you approximate figures and I will verify them, approximately 7 percent have been United States citizens. Approximately 6 percent have been lawful permanent residents. Approximately 3 percent have been individuals who are in receipt of the Special Immigrant Visas.” Yes, just three percent.

So who were the people whom the Biden regime brought to this country? At least some of them were trouble. Breitbart reported back in April 2023 that among the “planeloads of unvetted Afghans” who were brought to the U.S. were “some who were known improvised explosive device (IED) emplacers.” Simone Ledeen, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East during the first Trump administration, testified to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence: “Those first couple of planes that took off from Kabul airport were full of people who had not been vetted and subsequent vetting showed that actually, some of them were, you know, had emplaced IEDs and they appeared on our biometrics [database]. So, I have very grave concerns about this.”

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