Trump terminates TPS for Haiti, affecting 59,000 holders

DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announces the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, which has been designated since the January 2010 earthquake killed more than 160,000 people and displaced over 1.5 million. The termination affects approximately 59,000 Haitian TPS holders in the United States. The Trump administration argues Haiti has sufficiently recovered from the 2010 earthquake to justify ending the designation. Critics point out Haiti remains among the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere with ongoing political instability. The Haitian TPS termination triggers litigation that works its way to the Supreme Court — the same case, Mullin v. Doe, whose oral arguments unfold on April 30, 2026, as Judge Ho simultaneously blocks Yemen's TPS termination.