Wasserman Schultz Stands With TPS Recipients, Advocates to Call on Supreme Court to Defend TPS

Plantation, FL - Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), joined Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients and immigration advocates to call on the U.S. Supreme Court to defend TPS after the court heard arguments in Miot v. Trump, a consolidated case challenging the Trump administration's unlawful termination of TPS for Haiti and Syria. This case also has significant implications for 1.3 million TPS holders of several nationalities across the country.

Watch the full press conference here.

"TPS holders earn work permits, pay taxes, and get zero government welfare. They pay into Medicare and Social Security and get nothing in return," said Wasserman Schultz. "It does nobody any good to take good people out of the workforce, people who just came here to make a better life for their families."

"These are families who are contributing to our workforce, caring for our elderly, supporting our local economies, and raising the next generation of Americans," said Denise Brown, CEO of LifeNet4Families. "The question before us is simple: Do we continue to leave these families in limbo, or do we recognize their humanity, their contributions, and their right to stability?"

"Venezuelans have been living under the consequences of a decision from the Trump Administration that was abrupt, political, and disconnected from reality," said Adelys Ferro, Venezuelan American Caucus Executive Director. "A decision that ignored a humanitarian crisis that has lasted over a decade. A decision that ignored the fact that Venezuela remains under a dictatorship where repression, corruption, persecution, and fear are still very much in place."

"This Administration professes to uphold the rule of law. Few people symbolize respect for the rule of law more than TPS beneficiaries. Those who have been on TPS since 2010, it's akin to being on probation for fifteen years and never violating it," said Frandley Julien, an immigration attorney. "So those people, when you think of them, are law-abiding citizens. We cannot let the Administration commit such injustice against hard-working, law-abiding citizens."

"Everything that I've known - all of my family, all of my relations - are in the United States," said Nora Massenat, a Haitian TPS recipient. "I don't want to end up uprooting all of the relationships and all of the things that I've built in the United States - that I've come to know and to love - to move to a country that is unsafe and uncertain, where I don't have my family there."

Wasserman Schultz led more than 180 Members of Congress in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of the plaintiffs in this case. The brief urges the Court to preserve TPS protections, emphasizing the bipartisan support for TPS and the immense public interest served by TPS holders in Florida and across the United States. The brief also highlights how the TPS statute was intended to provide a safe haven for those who are fleeing violence abroad. The full amicus brief can be found here.

Wasserman Schultz is a lead sponsor of the bipartisan Venezuela TPS Act of 2025 and has led several previous amicus briefs in support of Venezuelan and Haitian TPS recipients. She has also signed discharge petitions to force a vote on restoring TPS for Venezuelans and for Haitians, the latter of which, led by Rep. Pressley, secured the requisite 218 signatures and passed the House of Representatives.