U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes issued an order on Wednesday, August 5, formally lifting the last court order standing between Haitian Temporary Protected Status holders and the end of their protection, while allowing the lawsuit challenging the administration to move forward.
The order acknowledges the mandate issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on August 4, which sent the case back to Judge Reyes’s courtroom for proceedings consistent with the Supreme Court’s June decision in Mullin v. Doe. That decision reversed Judge Reyes’s February 2 order, which had paused the termination’s effective date while the courts reviewed it.
With that reversal now final, Judge Reyes wrote that her earlier order, which had stayed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Haiti’s TPS designation, is no longer in effect.
In plain terms, the legal barrier that had kept the termination from taking hold is gone, and the termination stands.
For Haitian TPS holders, this does not change the status they lost. The termination already took effect on July 27. Wednesday’s order is the district court formally closing the chapter on its own docket, dissolving the injunction that the Supreme Court had already stripped of its force.
What the order does not do is end the case.
In the same document, Judge Reyes denied the government’s request to pause discovery — the fact-finding phase of the lawsuit — in the underlying matter. And she ordered both sides to propose a single, unified schedule for how the case will proceed from here, noting that the plaintiffs had informed the court on July 31 that they do not intend to file an amended complaint.
That means the lawsuit brought by the Haitian plaintiffs against the administration continues.
The Supreme Court’s ruling settled a specific question — that the Homeland Security Secretary’s decision to terminate TPS is not subject to judicial review — and it cleared the termination to take effect. It did not dismiss the case, and Judge Reyes has now allowed it to advance rather than freezing it at the government’s request.
The litigation, Miot v. Trump, has moved through nearly every level of the federal courts in a matter of months.
Judge Reyes first blocked the termination in February, finding in an earlier ruling that the decision to end the program appeared to be rooted in part in racial animus, citing disparaging remarks about Haiti and immigrants. The government appealed. The Supreme Court sided with the administration on June 25, holding that federal law bars judges from reviewing TPS determinations and that the challenged remarks were not, in its words, overtly racial. The court’s judgment was issued July 27, the same day the termination took effect, and the D.C. Circuit’s mandate returning the case to Judge Reyes followed on August 4.
Wednesday’s order is the district court’s response to that mandate.
The practical reality for Haitian TPS holders is unchanged from last week: the designation is terminated, work authorization tied to it has lapsed, and those without another form of status are exposed to removal proceedings. The courts have now exhausted the path that, for months, had held that outcome at bay.
What remains open is the lawsuit itself, and whatever a continued discovery process may surface about how the termination decision was made. Separately, the legislative route survives on paper: H.R. 1689, the bill that would grant Haiti TPS through 2029, passed the House in April but stalled in the Senate on July 22, when a single Republican objection blocked an attempt to pass it by unanimous consent.
For now, the injunction is gone, the termination stands, and the case moves on to its next phase on a schedule the parties have been ordered to propose.
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