LDF Condemns Supreme Court Decision Allowing Trump Administration To Deport Haitian Families
Photos: YouTube Screenshots|Wikimedia Commons Today, the Supreme Court issued a decision allowing the Trump administration to selectively end legal immigration status and begin deporting over 350,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States. Remarkably, the Court said of the Trump administration’s hateful rhetoric toward Haitians, “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 Trump administration’s racist rhetoric included asserting that Haitian’s are “poisoning the blood” of America, calling Haiti a “shithole country”, and accusing Haitians of “probably hav[ing] AIDS” and “eating the pets of the people” that live in Springfield, Ohio. The case, Trump v. Miot, comes to the Supreme Court after the U.S. District Court for the District Columbia stopped the Trump administration from terminating Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to pause that ruling. TPS allows people from countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disaster, or other humanitarian crises to live and work in the United States as lawful residents. “All Black people in our country, including immigrants, are entitled to equal protection under the law,” said Brittany Carter, Assistant Counsel at LDF. “Yet the Supreme Court’s decision fails to honor this principle by allowing the Trump administration’s racially discriminatory termination of Haiti’s TPS to move forward. We strongly and unequivocally condemn this decision. LDF stands in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of Haitians and other TPS recipients impacted by today’s opinion.” “Today’s decision puts hundreds of thousands of Haitians in danger of being deported to a dangerous environment against their will and against this country’s promise of equal protection for all,” said Jennifer A. Holmes, Deputy Director of Litigation at LDF. “We are deeply disappointed in this callous opinion from the Supreme Court.” “This ruling is a devastating betrayal of Haitian families who have lived, worked, and contributed to this country for years – only to be cast out based on anti-Black immigration sentiment,” said Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP. “The Supreme Court has given the green light to deport over 350,000 people, jeopardizing their safety, all while ignoring clear equal protection principles. It’s a shame that this is the America we’ve come to be.” In April 2026, LDF and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to uphold a lower court decision blocking the Trump administration from deporting over 350,000 Haitians living in the United States due to unsafe conditions in Haiti. In the brief, LDF and NAACP argued that abruptly terminating TPS would cause severe harm to Haitian nationals, their families, communities, and countless other immigrants who are lawful U.S. residents. The brief highlighted the President’s overtly race-based statements about Haitian nationals and Black people, which undermine longstanding equal protection principles in the Constitution. Under our Constitution, every person living in the Country—regardless of their immigration status—is protected from racial discrimination by the government.
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Today, the Supreme Court issued a decision allowing the Trump administration to selectively end legal immigration status and begin deporting over 350,000 Haitian nationals living in the United States. Remarkably, the Court said of the Trump administration’s hateful rhetoric toward Haitians, “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 Trump administration’s racist rhetoric included asserting that Haitian’s are “poisoning the blood” of America, calling Haiti a “shithole country”, and accusing Haitians of “probably hav[ing] AIDS” and “eating the pets of the people” that live in Springfield, Ohio.
The case, Trump v. Miot, comes to the Supreme Court after the U.S. District Court for the District Columbia stopped the Trump administration from terminating Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to pause that ruling. TPS allows people from countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disaster, or other humanitarian crises to live and work in the United States as lawful residents.
“All Black people in our country, including immigrants, are entitled to equal protection under the law,” said Brittany Carter, Assistant Counsel at LDF. “Yet the Supreme Court’s decision fails to honor this principle by allowing the Trump administration’s racially discriminatory termination of Haiti’s TPS to move forward. We strongly and unequivocally condemn this decision. LDF stands in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of Haitians and other TPS recipients impacted by today’s opinion.”
“Today’s decision puts hundreds of thousands of Haitians in danger of being deported to a dangerous environment against their will and against this country’s promise of equal protection for all,” said Jennifer A. Holmes, Deputy Director of Litigation at LDF. “We are deeply disappointed in this callous opinion from the Supreme Court.”
“This ruling is a devastating betrayal of Haitian families who have lived, worked, and contributed to this country for years – only to be cast out based on anti-Black immigration sentiment,” said Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP. “The Supreme Court has given the green light to deport over 350,000 people, jeopardizing their safety, all while ignoring clear equal protection principles. It’s a shame that this is the America we’ve come to be.”
In April 2026, LDF and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to uphold a lower court decision blocking the Trump administration from deporting over 350,000 Haitians living in the United States due to unsafe conditions in Haiti.
In the brief, LDF and NAACP argued that abruptly terminating TPS would cause severe harm to Haitian nationals, their families, communities, and countless other immigrants who are lawful U.S. residents. The brief highlighted the President’s overtly race-based statements about Haitian nationals and Black people, which undermine longstanding equal protection principles in the Constitution. Under our Constitution, every person living in the Country—regardless of their immigration status—is protected from racial discrimination by the government.
