A Biden-appointed federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to revoke the Temporary Protected Status of Haitian migrants with legal status in the United States.
BREAKING: DC based federal judge Ana Reyes (Biden appointee) has just blocked DHS from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000+ Haitians in the U.S. whose legal status was set to expire *tomorrow*, which would have opened them up to deportation and a loss of their… pic.twitter.com/HabvEtFp00
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 3, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: Biden activist Judge Ana Reyes BLOCKS President Trump from terminating Temporary Protected Status for over 350,000 THOUSAND Haitian migrants tomorrow — they soon would've been deportable
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 3, 2026
THE JUDICIAL COUP MUST END!
This judge wrote an UNHINGED leftist "order"… pic.twitter.com/KpHWU068US
This is how Biden-appointed Judge Ana Reyes opened her ruling overturning the Trump admin ending TPS for Haitians.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 3, 2026
Does this sound like a federal judge's opinion to you or a paper being written by a freshman political science major? pic.twitter.com/9qvLoTE0RL
Judge Ana Reyes handed down a politically charged decision in which she argues that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is "substantially likely” to have made the choice to terminate the TPS status of the Haitian migrants “because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
Reyes began her opinion by grandstanding about how George Washington's idea that “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions" was somehow codified after Congress created the TPS designation.
Reyes cherry-picked numerous migrants affiliated with the case with varied professions and education to “prove” that the Trump administration wasn’t targeting “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies,” stating that “Haitian immigrants are overwhelmingly law-abiding, with incarceration rates lower than those of native-born Americans.”
Reyes believes that she finds no harm in maintaining Haiti’s TPS status until a resolution can be found. Reyes also argued that Noem had neither facts or the law on her side, so instead Noem posts to social media. Reyes even embedded an X post from Noem in her decision.
Reyes isn’t the only judge to block the Trump administration’s TPS changes. In December, Biden-appointed Judge Angel Kelley blocked DHS from stripping South Sudan of its protected status.
“This is naked, lawless activism that we will take to a higher court and be vindicated on," DHS said in a statement to Fox News. "Haiti’s TPS was granted following an earthquake that took place over 15 years ago, it was never intended to be a de facto amnesty program, yet that’s how previous administrations have used it for decades. Temporary means temporary and the final word will not be from an activist judge legislating from the bench.”
DHS statement to @FoxNews:
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 3, 2026
“This is naked, lawless activism that we will take to a higher court and be vindicated on.
Haiti’s TPS was granted following an earthquake that took place over 15 years ago, it was never intended to be a de facto amnesty program, yet that’s how…
The TPS status for Haitians was set to expire the day following the decision.
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