Immigration attorney Allen Orr claimed that the that the Trump administration has the right to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of Haitian and Syrian nationals will cause several people to “die and suffer.”
On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in the case of Mullin v. Doe, finding that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under President Donald Trump was within its power to remove the temporary protections from certain countries, overturning the rulings of lower courts.
Speaking on “MS NOW Reports,” Orr, who represented Haitian nationals, called the decision “very devastating” for Americans, suggesting that it could have deadly consequences.
“There are going to be a lot of jobs that are left open, and a lot of people in the home healthcare industry who are not going to receive any service, because their providers are going to be removed from the United States,” Orr said. “There are a lot of people who are going to die and suffer because of this. So I wish this court was more of a court of equity rather than what they say they were a court of policy right now.”
He also criticized the Supreme Court for dismissing in their decision and pushed back on the White House repeating that the protection status was only “temporary” based on the name.
“The concept that people keep repeating â that the problem is its ‘temporary’ status, and its been longer than temporary â well, change the word. Dont put peoples lives in danger because you feel that label arbitrarily moves something,” Orr said.
He continued, “As I said before, there are a million-plus TPS individuals who are here legally, working. Theyre authorized, theyve been vetted. There are none of the other concerns you might have with people who come in undocumented. Theyre supporting our economy. And when you remove those individuals, you draw down all of those work areas. All those jobs theyre doing, all of these companies that were relying on these TPS workers to work tomorrow are going to have to make decisions about them leaving today.”
In a comment to , White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson called the ruling a “win” for the administration.
“Today, the Supreme Court affirmed what President Trump has always maintained: temporary protected status is, by definition, temporary. It was never intended to be a pathway to permanent status or legal residency and it is committed to the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security. The Trump Administration continues to lawfully end the egregious abuses to our immigration system that have hurt Americans for years,” Jackson said.
Trump first attempted to revoke TPS for Haitians, which was initially granted after the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, during his first term in 2017. A series of federal challenges to that attempt kept Haitian TPS in place throughout Trump’s first term, but in 2025, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem  entirely.
In his opinion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that a racial explanation for the change is unlikely to be proven, given that the respondents themselves suggested that the Trump administration may simply oppose TPS as a point of policy, without respect to any particular group.
