Trump Administration Immigration Policy

The Supreme Court granted expedited review and will hear consolidated arguments in late April on the Trump administration’s effort to terminate Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitian and about 6,000 Syrian nationals, while for now leaving lower‑court injunctions in place blocking immediate terminations. The case—expected to be decided by late June—raises whether TPS designations are judicially reviewable and whether the terminations violate statutory or equal‑protection limits, with the Justice Department seeking broad deference to DHS and lower courts flagging possible racial animus in the Haiti decision.

Leqaa Kordia, the last protester held in ICE custody after the Trump-era campus crackdown, was released on March 16, 2026 on a $100,000 bond after DHS declined to appeal an immigration judge’s third bond order, ending about a year in detention. At her release she vowed to keep fighting for others still detained at Prairieland and called the system unjust; her case has drawn scrutiny after the NYPD provided sealed protest-arrest records to federal authorities (telling the city they were needed for a money‑laundering probe) and DHS had previously framed her family remittances as a security concern.