People hold signs at a rally calling on Congress to restore Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians, in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 23, 2026. The US Supreme Court on June 25, 2026, backed a Trump administration move to strip deportation protections from some 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians living in the United States. A federal appeals court on has extended the deadline for TPS to be revoked for Haitians in the US until July 27. (Credit: Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP via Getty Images)
Attorneys defending Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from more than a dozen nations have landed on an argument almost nobody raised a year ago: the Department of Homeland Security was never legally handed the authority to end TPS designations at all. The theory now appears in amended complaints moving through several federal district courts, as advocacy groups hunt for fresh legal ground after the Supreme Court shut down the approach they'd relied on for years.
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