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A look at the Supreme Court's decision to end TPS for thousands of Haitians and Syrians

NPR | By Scott Horsley

Published June 27, 2026 at 7:40 AM EDT

This week the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration a green light to expel hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants who've been living and working legally in the U.S.

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