One line moved on a map. One date was moved on a notice. One gate opened in a smaller refugee system.
The country did not need to say what it was doing. The paperwork was enough.
Notes and Bibliography
• Lindsay Whitehurst, “Supreme Court Mulls Trump Administration Push to End Protections for Migrants from Haiti and Syria,” Associated Press, April 29, 2026.
• Ted Hesson and Humeyra Pamuk, “Exclusive: Trump Poised to Expand Refugee Program for White South Africans,” Reuters, April 23, 2026.
• Louisiana v. Callais, No. 24-109, slip op. (U.S. Apr. 29, 2026); Amy Howe, “In Major Voting Rights Act Case, Supreme Court Strikes Down Redistricting Map Challenged as Racial Gerrymander,” SCOTUSblog, April 29, 2026.
• “Louisiana v. Callais,” SCOTUSblog, accessed April 30, 2026.
• Louisiana v. Callais, No. 24-109, slip op.
• Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, “Elena Kagan Blasts Supreme Court Voting Rights Act Decision,” Ms. Magazine, April 29, 2026.
• National Archives, “Voting Rights Act (1965),” accessed April 30, 2026.
• National Archives, “15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights,” accessed April 30, 2026; National Archives, “Congress and the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” accessed April 30, 2026.
• “US Supreme Court Conservatives Seem to Favor Ending TPS for Haitians and Syrians,” The Guardian, April 29, 2026.
• Andrew Chung, “Supreme Court Leans Toward Trump’s Move Targeting Haitian and Syrian Immigrants,” Reuters, April 29, 2026; “US Supreme Court Hears Haiti, Syria TPS Case with Wide-Ranging Implications,” Al Jazeera, April 29, 2026.
• Justin Jouvenal and Ann E. Marimow, “Supreme Court Wrestles with Trump Effort to End Temporary Protections for Migrants,” Washington Post, April 29, 2026.
• Transcript of Oral Argument, Noem v. National TPS Alliance, No. 25-1083, U.S. Supreme Court, April 29, 2026.
• Department of Homeland Security, “Termination of the Designation of Afghanistan for Temporary Protected Status,” Federal Register, May 13, 2025.
• U.S. Department of State, “Haiti Travel Advisory,” April 16, 2026.
• Hesson and Pamuk, “Trump Poised to Expand Refugee Program for White South Africans.”
• Ted Hesson and Humeyra Pamuk, “Exclusive: U.S. Aims to Bring in 4,500 White South Africans per Month as Refugees, Document Says,” Reuters, February 26, 2026.
• Hesson and Pamuk, “U.S. Aims to Bring in 4,500 White South Africans per Month.”