In Response to the Supreme Court’s TPS Decision
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 25, 2026
Media Contact: The TASC Group
Email: workerscircle@thetascgroup.com, 347-901-9352
In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court has ruled that the court cannot review the government’s decisions to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syria and Haiti.
Ann Toback, CEO of the Workers Circle responds,
“Haitian and Syrian people fled danger and unremitting violence to seek freedom and safety that the United States offered. This decision, made by the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court, is a betrayal of our nation’s promise to them. Further, it is shameful, because the court knows that it makes them sitting ducks for violent abduction and detention by ICE, then deportation into chaos and for some, unto death in their home countries.
More than one million people who are our neighbors, family members, and friends stand to be harmed. These people are nurses and small business owners, baggage handlers and educators; their children and our children play together.
The Workers Circle’s Eastern European Jewish founders fled pogroms and persecution to seek safe haven and democratic freedoms on these shores. In future generations wave after wave of Jewish people sought safety here from facism, Stalinism, and straight-up persecution. This decision today is a sickening reversal of all we stand for as a nation.
We call on Congress to act immediately to extend TPS for Haitians and Syrians without delay.”
About The Workers Circle
The Workers Circleis a national, secular Jewish social justice organization founded by Eastern European immigrants who fled pogroms and persecutions to seek democratic freedoms and build “a better and more beautiful world for all” at the turn of the 20th century. That history drives our work for human equality and robust democracy today. Our multigenerational activist community of 250,000+ people powers our strategic, non-partisan campaigns to empower voters, strengthen Constitutional rights, and build a durable, grassroots infrastructure to demand the multiracial democracy we need. Core campaigns of the Workers Circle include freedom vigils, talk to your sheriff, democracy circles, and voter empowerment.