Democrat judges spent a decade freezing Trump's immigration orders before DHS could act on a single one.
The Supreme Court just handed Trump two rulings on the same day that went directly at the judges running that operation.
What those rulings actually strip from the Left's legal machine is something their lawyers are still trying to process.
Supreme Court Ends TPS Protections for 350000 Haitians and Syrians
The Supreme Court handed Trump two 6-3 immigration victories on the same day.
The first ruling, Mullin v. Doe, shut down the legal challenges that had blocked DHS Secretary Kristi Noem from ending Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians.
Federal courts in Washington, D.C. and New York had separately blocked Noem's decision.
Both appeals courts declined to intervene.
For two years, those 350,000 Haitian nationals stayed in the country, untouchable, while activist lawyers ran out the clock.
The Supreme Court reversed it all in one ruling and made the core point that ends the fight: federal law explicitly bars judicial review of TPS termination decisions.
DHS General Counsel James Percival put it plainly: "TPS was always supposed to be temporary and can be cancelled at the appropriate time."
The second ruling – Mullin v. Al Otro Lado – revived a border enforcement tool called metering that the Left had killed in Biden-era courts.
Immigration groups had argued that anyone standing at a port of entry on the Mexican side was entitled to full asylum processing under American law.
The Ninth Circuit agreed with them.
Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion buried that argument in one sentence: a person standing on the Mexican side of the border has not arrived in the United States, and is therefore not entitled to apply for asylum or demand inspection by an immigration officer.
You are not in America until you are in America.
Border officials can now turn illegal aliens away at ports of entry before they touch American soil – and no federal court can issue an injunction stopping them.
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Left-wing groups were never trying to win in court – they were trying to run out the clock.
The formula was simple: file suit the moment Trump announced any enforcement action, then find a Biden-appointed judge in California, Hawaii, or D.C. willing to issue a nationwide injunction.
Every deportation flight got grounded while the appeals dragged on for years, and the border stayed open.
Mullin v. Doe closed that door permanently.
The TPS statute itself takes courts out of the equation – Congress wrote judicial review out of the termination process, which means no judge anywhere can second-guess Noem's call.
The second ruling hit the other pillar of the same strategy.
Border metering is the practice of limiting how many people CBP allows to approach a port of entry and request asylum on any given day.
Agents stand at the physical border line and turn people away until the port has capacity to process them – those turned back wait in Mexico.
Obama started it in 2016 to manage a surge at the San Ysidro crossing in San Diego.
Trump expanded it during his first term.
A Biden-era district court judge in San Diego then ruled it unlawful and the policy was scrapped in 2021.
The Supreme Court just reversed that ruling.
The core question in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado was whether someone standing on the Mexican side of the border has legally "arrived in" the United States for purposes of asylum law.
Democrat judges on the Ninth Circuit said yes – meaning CBP had to process them regardless.
The Supreme Court said no – meaning border officials can turn illegal aliens away before they set foot on American soil, and those people have no legal right to asylum processing at all.
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Democrats lost more than two court cases last week– they lost the legal infrastructure their entire immigration resistance was built on.
Percival captured the absurdity of what just ended: "We had to go all the way to SCOTUS to vindicate the principle that an alien is not in the United States until he is, in fact, in the United States."
Roughly 200,000 Salvadorans and 50,000 Ukrainians still hold TPS designations that have not expired – and every one of those designations is now vulnerable to the same cancellation with no court able to intervene.
The Left built its immigration legal strategy around the assumption that a single friendly judge could buy enough time to outlast any Republican president.
The Supreme Court just proved that assumption wrong.
Sources:
- Department of Homeland Security, "DHS Issues Statement Following Multiple Supreme Court Wins," DHS.gov, June 25, 2026.
- Amy Howe, "Court allows Trump administration to end removal protections for Syrian and Haitian nationals," SCOTUSblog, June 25, 2026.
- "Supreme Court Decides Mullin v. Al Otro Lado," Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, June 25, 2026.
- "Blue state leaders erupt after Supreme Court's decision ending TPS protections for Haitians, Syrians," Fox News, June 25, 2026.
- "Supreme Court backs Trump on stricter asylum rules," Axios, June 25, 2026.
