CLARKE ISSUES STATEMENT ON SCOTUS’ SHAMEFUL RULING AGAINST TPS FOR HAITI AND SYRIA

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June 25, 2026

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WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) released the following statement:

"Again and again, this MAGA-corrupted Supreme Court has proven there are no lengths it will not go to disgrace itself in fealty and service of Donald Trump. Today's despicable ruling to allow the Trump Administration to ignore the law and abandon any semblance of human decency by prematurely terminating TPS for Haiti and Syria is devastating on a scale that shocks the conscience - for the more than 350,000 TPS holders who have now lost legal status, for our communities that will soon lose neighbors, loved ones, hardworking employees, and business leaders, and for America's moral standing in our world that continues to collapse under the weight of this president's relentless humanitarian betrayals.

"From the moment they arrived in this nation, Haitian and Syrian TPS holders - most of whom arrived at the invitation of our government - have dedicated themselves to contributing to it. They have built businesses, built families, and built up their communities. And, through their undeniable strength of character and resilient spirit, they have become an inseparable part of this country's social fabric. While the crises confronting their home nations only escalate, they have come to embody exactly what it means to be Americans, just as the many waves of immigrants before them have done since this country's founding.

"Haiti and Syria continue to face dire conditions driven by natural disasters, civil unrest, rampant gang violence, and the collapse of governmental institutions. If our own State Department deems these nations too dangerous for Americans to travel to, how can we justify forcing nationals to return to those same conditions? We cannot. There simply is no justification. And yet, with their legal status ripped out from beneath them, our neighbors are now facing deportation to the same desperate conditions they narrowly escaped with their lives.

"SCOTUS is more than eager to prove to this president that it has no interest in serving its constitutional role as a check on the Executive's power, but instead only as an enabler of its worst abuses. Unfortunately, Congress has stood by and waited for this activist court to recalibrate its duty to the law and America's well-being. That time has not come, nor will it ever in my humble estimation. It's clear now that this legislative body must seize back the power that our increasingly unequal branches have stolen, and that must start with action to protect the hundreds of thousands of TPS holders whose lives depend upon it."

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