Republican Governor Calls For President Trump To Reconsider TPS For Haitian Migrants After Supreme Court Ruling

This is a RINO move.

Republican Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio is not happy with the Supreme Court’s latest decision.

On Thursday, The Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Homeland Security does have the authority to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian migrants.

DeWine while speaking to CNN, said he hopes the Trump administration reconsiders deporting Haitians whose TPS have ended claiming Haitians play a big role in Ohio ‘s manufacturing and healthcare industries.

The Hill reported more on DeWine’s comments:

Ohio Gov. Mike Dewine (R) on Sunday called on the Trump administration to reconsider pushing for the elimination of temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian migrants following the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the program.

The high court ruled 6-3 that the Trump administration can remove thousands of Haitians and Syrians who currently have TPS, which allows immigrants from certain countries to live in the U.S. legally with a pathway to work authorization.

“What I would hope is the Trump administration would reconsider this,” Dewine told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an appearance on “State of the Union.” “Look at how it’s going to impact states like Ohio. In Ohio, the Haitians are working primarily in manufacturing, they’re also working in the food area.”

He added that the “most important” area of work for Haitian migrants is healthcare.

“It’s Haitians who, many times, are taking care of your mom or your dad who has Alzheimer’s, taking care of family members who might be in a nursing home,” the governor said. “And to say we’re going to pull all those [people] out, it’s just not in our own self-interest.”

Dewine cited Ohio Republican mayors and lawmakers with large Haitian populations in their districts and municipalities who advocate in favor of extending TPS.

The governor said Haiti’s “clearly” not safe, given all of the State Department travel advisories and warnings in place for the country, which has widespread gang violence.

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🚨 JUST IN: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) just came out in SUPPORT of the mass Haitian migrant population in his state and against the Trump admin canceling their TPS

Wtf?!

“It is not in the United States's interest, certainly not in Ohio's interest, to have people who are working…

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 28, 2026

Former Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich also called for Haitians’ TPS not to end:

The Supreme Court has allowed TPS for Haitians to end, putting families in Springfield and communities across the country at risk of being sent back to a country in chaos. Congress can and should extend these protections. pic.twitter.com/cXoeacoIZ9

— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) June 28, 2026

SCOTUS Blog broke down the Supreme Court’s ruling that Kasich and DeWine are not too happy about:

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the federal government to remove protections for citizens of Haiti and Syria under a federal program that allows foreign citizens to stay in the United States when the U.S. government believes that it is not safe for them to return to their homes. By a vote of 6-3 in Mullin v. Doe, the justices paused rulings by federal courts in Washington, D.C., and New York that had barred the Trump administration from ending the designations under the program, known as Temporary Protected Status, for Haiti and Syria.

Instead, the court ruled that the federal law creating the TPS program generally bars courts from reviewing the determinations by then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to end the TPS designations for Haiti and Syria. The court also ruled that the Haitian TPS holders are likely to lose on the claim that Noem ended TPS status for Haiti because the country’s citizens are overwhelmingly Black and therefore violated the Constitution’s guarantee of equal treatment.

Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the language of the TPS statute prohibiting judicial review “is clear, and its plain meaning is very broad.”

Justice Elena Kagan dissented, in an opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. She wrote that at this stage of the litigation, the Haitian and Syrian TPS beneficiaries “ask for only one thing: that they may stay in this country while they continue to litigate their claims. … [T]hey are entitled to that relief, and should not instead be consigned to devastating, and indeed life-threatening, injury.”

Congress enacted the Temporary Protected Status program in 1990. The program gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to designate a country’s citizens as eligible to remain in the U.S. and work if they cannot return safely to their own country because of a natural disaster, armed conflict, or other “extraordinary and temporary” conditions there.

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Then-Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano made both of the designations at the center of this case. In 2010, shortly after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than 300,000 people and causing catastrophic damage, she designated Haiti under the TPS program. Napolitano made a similar designation for Syria two years later, pointing to “deteriorating conditions” there after a “brutal crackdown” by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad against anti-government dissenters.

Napolitano’s designations of Haiti and Syria initially lasted for 18 months, but they were repeatedly extended until 2025, when Noem announced that the Trump administration planned to end both designations. Noem said that a new Syrian government was attempting to “move the country to a stable institutional governance,” and that she had determined that “there are no extraordinary and temporary conditions in Haiti that prevent Haitian nationals … from returning in safety.” And in both cases, she indicated that it would be “contrary to the national interest” to allow the countries’ TPS designation to remain in place.

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