Faith Leaders Say End of TPS is a ‘Moral Failure,’ May Tear Families Apart

Flags of Haiti hang from a chair, on the day of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to strip Temporary Protected Status protections from hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants, in the Little Haiti neighbourhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, June 25, 2026. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton  

Despite preparing for the possibility, advocates still felt the grim reality set in when the Supreme Court decided to allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants whose home countries were previously deemed too dangerous to force their return.

Christopher Kerr, executive director of the Ignatian Solidarity Network, said in a statement that the ruling “strips vital humanitarian protections from our migrant neighbors and leaves families in a dangerous place.

“This ruling separates families and uproots students in our schools, leaders in our parishes, and friends in our communities. Catholic teaching reminds us that every person has a right to life and the conditions necessary for human flourishing,” Kerr said. “To force individuals back to nations gripped by violence and instability is a moral failure of our obligation to our neighbors.”

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