President Donald Trump on Wednesday notched a major immigration victory after a federal judge acknowledged that the court order blocking the administration from ending temporary protected status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitians is no longer in effect after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mullin v. Doe.

The ruling marks the culmination of a yearslong legal battle over the Biden administration’s expansion of Haiti’s TPS designation and delivers a significant immigration victory for Trump, who repeatedly campaigned on ending the Biden administration’s expanded TPS protections for Haitians.

The issue became a centerpiece of the 2024 election after Trump and running mate JD Vance blamed the Biden administration’s Haiti TPS policies for the influx of Haitian migrants into Springfield, Ohio, where residents raised concerns about traffic safety, strained public services and cultural clashes.

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The controversy later exploded onto the national stage after Trump referenced residents’ claims that migrants were taking ducks and geese from parks and eating household pets.

The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment by publication time.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes wrote Wednesday that her earlier order staying the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) termination of Haiti’s TPS designation «is no longer in effect» after the Supreme Court’s decision and the D.C. Circuit’s subsequent mandate.

While the underlying lawsuit will continue, the administration is no longer barred by the injunction from moving forward with ending TPS protections for an estimated 330,000 to 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S. 

The remaining litigation centers on whether the administration acted with unconstitutional racial animus in terminating the designation.

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The Supreme Court ruling in Mullin v. Doe ended TPS for Haitian migrants. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images, File)

The Supreme Court ruled in June that the TPS statute bars judicial review of the administration’s non-constitutional decisions to terminate TPS designations and found the plaintiffs’ equal protection challenge was unlikely to succeed. The court reversed the lower courts and remanded the case for further proceedings.

DHS General Counsel James Percival pushed back on reports suggesting Wednesday’s order itself ended Haiti’s TPS designation, arguing the protections effectively expired when the Supreme Court’s mandate was issued July 27 and that Reyes’ order merely acknowledged that legal reality.

«Haiti TPS ended when the Supreme Court mandate issued on July 27,» Percival wrote on X. «I will give Judge Reyes kudos though for taking the L with grace and not doing something bonkers like many of her colleagues.»

Haiti first received TPS after the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake, but the designation remained in place for 16 years through multiple administrations. The Biden administration later expanded and extended protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians already living in the U.S.

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Temporary protected status for Haitian immigrants was lifted late last month. (Lynne Sladky/AP Photo, File)

After reviewing conditions in Haiti, former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem determined the country no longer met the statutory requirements for TPS and announced the administration’s decision to terminate the designation, arguing the humanitarian program had been extended well beyond its intended temporary purpose. The move triggered the legal challenge that ultimately reached the Supreme Court.

After the SCOTUS decision, the DHS announced Haiti’s TPS designation would be terminated, effective July 27, and that employment authorization documents issued under the designation were no longer valid. The department instructed employers to reverify the work authorization of affected employees.

The State Department maintains a Level 4 «Do Not Travel» advisory for Haiti because of widespread gang violence, kidnappings and civil unrest.

Fox News Digital’s Danielle Wallace and Michael Lee contributed to this report.

Vacationers were sent scrambling for safety Monday after a projectile struck a crowded beach in a Russian Black Sea resort town, killing seven people, including four children, and injuring dozens more, officials said.

Video footage captured the incident in the village of Arkhipo-Osipovka near Gelendzhik, where the beach was packed with visitors at the time of the strike.

The Russian Mission in Geneva said in a post on X that the «bloody attack» was carried out by a drone launched by Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of targeting civilians.

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«The attack targeted civilian infrastructure. Emergency and special services are working at the crash site,» regional Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev said in a post on Telegram.

«What happened today is a targeted attack by the Kyiv regime against civilians who have no connection to the military infrastructure. This cynical and inhumane terrorist attack against children cannot be justified.» 

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A fiery explosion rocks a Black Sea beach resort in Russia on Monday. (Social media via Reuters)

Andriy Kovalenko, an officer with Ukraine’s Defense Forces, disputed Russia’s account, saying the deaths were directly caused by Russian air defenses that intercepted a drone, sending debris onto the beach.

«Russian air defense shot down a drone over people lying on the beach,» Kovalenko said on Telegram.

In the video, sounds resembling gunfire were heard just seconds before a drone struck the beach, causing a fireball explosion that sent bystanders screaming. As the gunfire was heard, the drone appeared to veer sharply before diving toward the beach.

Preliminary Russian reports also found that several of the deaths were caused by «falling drone debris,» Kondratyev said.

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In another Telegram post, Kovalenko indicated that Ukraine uses its weapons against Russian military-industrial infrastructure to affect Moscow’s ability to finance the war.

He further accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of creating an «illusion» that Russia would remain safe from the war by downplaying daily explosions as falling debris, limiting air raid warnings, and positioning air defenses near populated areas such as the Black Sea resort.

Smoke rises after a deadly blast along a Russian resort beach on Monday. (Social media via Reuters)

«Putin deliberately killed these people. Because if he had not started the war and struck Ukraine, they would be alive,» Kovalenko said.

«It was Putin, his air defense, who killed these Russians. His decisions in response to their decisions launched a chain of death for Russians.»

President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed Wednesday, singling out the progressive candidate as «full of s—» while arguing Democrats are embracing communism.

The remarks came hours after El-Sayed narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democrat Senate primary, winning by less than one percentage point after The Associated Press called the race early Wednesday.

He will face Republican Mike Rogers in November for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Gary Peters.

Trump devoted several minutes of his Las Vegas speech to attacking democratic socialist candidates, arguing they are advancing communist ideas and calling communism «the greatest threat» facing the United States.

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«These people are dangerous and frankly, they are lunatics. They’re crazy, and we can’t let them get into office,» Trump said. «Communism is the greatest threat to our country in its history, including even World War One, World War Two, Pearl Harbor, 9/11. I think it’s the greatest threat.»

The White House later amplified that portion of Trump’s remarks on social media, posting simply: «Communism is the greatest threat to our country.»

Trump mocked what he said communist policies would mean for Americans.

«Would you like a free house? We’ll take one from your neighbor. Would you like free rent? We’ll take it from whoever. We’ll take your building away from the landlord,» Trump said. «What they don’t say, and what Republicans should say, is that at the end of the year, you’ll have nothing but death, squalor, poverty. You’ll have a life of hell.»

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FILE – U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, greet the crowd after El-Sayed spoke at The People V. The Powerful rally at the Detroit Opera House on July 18, 2026 in Detroit, Mich. He was recently endorsed by Michigan Democratic Sen. Tina Smith. (Sarah Rice/Getty Images, File)

The president pointed to Venezuela as an example of what he said happens when communist policies take hold.

«Look at Venezuela, where it was such a rich country 20 years ago,» Trump said. «Every time this has happened, you go through squalor … filth, crime, death, destruction, embarrassment. You lose your home. You lose your apartment.»

Trump then singled out El-Sayed by name, drawing one of the loudest reactions of the night.

«When I watch Abdul, he’s full of s—,» Trump said.

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Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, films a social media video at a pool party for content creators supporting his campaign, Monday, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

El-Sayed’s victory gives Democrats a progressive nominee in one of the country’s most closely watched Senate races. Backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., El-Sayed campaigned on Medicare for All, getting money out of politics and ending U.S. military aid to Israel.

He has described himself as a capitalist and has distanced himself from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), though Republicans have frequently tied him to the broader democratic socialist movement.

Trump later returned to a familiar theme from the second term of his presidency.

«If you remember, during my State of the Union speech, I made a very strong statement. I said that America will never be a socialist country,» Trump said. «I was right.»

The president argued Democrats now want to move beyond socialism.

TRUMP HAILS AMERICA AS ‘MOST EXCEPTIONAL NATION EVER TO EXIST’ IN MOUNT RUSHMORE SPEECH

President Donald Trump introduces a family who has benefited from the «no tax on tips» policy during an event at Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa in Las Vegas on Wednesday. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

«What I didn’t say is what they’re trying to do. They want to skip socialism. They want to go right down to the bottom of the barrel. That’s communism,» Trump said. «They want it to be a communist country. We’re not letting them have it as a communist country, not even for a minute.»

Trump closed by vowing to defeat what he called the Democrat Party’s leftward movement.

«Together we will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America once and for all,» Trump said. «It’s defeated. It’s going to go down. It always goes down.»

The White House and El-Sayed’s campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller, Kiera McDonald, and Robert Schmad contributed to this reporting.