Bend the Arc: Jewish Action condemns in the strongest possible terms the Supreme Court's decision in Mullin v. Doe, which clears the way for the Trump administration to strip Temporary Protected Status from more than 350,000 people from Haiti and Syria. The ruling also jeopardizes pending protections for an estimated 1.3 million people total, from other countries currently shielded by court orders.

This ruling is a catastrophic loss. Our nation's TPS holders are our neighbors, family members, fellow congregants, and coworkers — they are our fellow Americans. They have spent decades building their lives here — raising families, strengthening their communities, and contributing to the fabric of this country.

As American Jews, we bring our own history to this moment. Just this month, we marked the anniversary of the M.S. St. Louis — the ship carrying 937 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution that the United States turned away in 1939. Forced to return to Europe, 254 of those passengers were murdered in the Holocaust. We look back on that as one of the most shameful moments in American history, a moment when xenophobia and exclusionary ideology overrode any obligation to those fleeing persecution. Today's rulings — not only against TPS, but a second ruling which will make it more difficult to seek asylum — are rooted in those same exclusionary and bigoted ideologies. A court sanctioning prejudice does not make it right.

"The communities most devastated by this ruling — Haitian and Syrian families, Black and Muslim communities — are the same communities this administration has targeted and demonized since day one," said Jamie Beran, CEO of Bend the Arc: Jewish Action. "As American Jews, we know that our safety is inseparable from the safety of all people targeted by white supremacy. This ruling will cause real, irreparable harm to real people, and it is driven by a racism the Court chose not to confront. We remain in solidarity with every TPS holder and their family in their rage, their sorrow, and their determination to fight on."

Today's decision is not a standalone ruling — it is one more step in a deliberate, escalating mass deportation agenda. The Trump administration has already ended TPS for seven countries. Millions more remain at risk. This is part of the same mass deportation effort we have been fighting as part of our sustained campaign to resist ICE's expanding violence in our communities and stop the supercharged funding that is making it possible.

Congress has the power to act — and it must do so immediately. Every member of Congress must take immediate steps to create lasting pathways to permanence for TPS holders and for all immigrants who have built their lives in this country. Our neighbors are running out of time.