USCIS temporarily extends Haitian TPS as Sen. Moreno announces bill to ban birthright citizenship

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said this week that Haitian immigrants can stay in the country for now, as U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, introduced a bill to abolish birthright citizenship, which would negatively affect thousands of children of Haitian immigrants who automatically became American citizens at birth.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in a 6-3 ruling that President Donald Trump’s administration can terminate the Temporary Protected Status of Haitian and Syrian Immigrants. However, despite the overall anti-immigrant sentiment in the second Trump administration, the administration decided to postpone the deportations of Haitian immigrants, with USCIS announcing the news in its Wednesday press release.

“TPS Haiti beneficiaries will keep their status and employment authorization, and their documentation will remain valid per the above court order. Forms I-766, Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) with category A12 or C19 remain valid and are extended,” the agency wrote. “The extension is limited relief until the lower courts align with the U.S. Supreme Court’s favorable decision in Mullin v. Doe.”

While the Supreme Court didn’t side with Haitians when it comes to TPS, the Justices agreed with the original language of the 14th Amendment, allowing birthright citizenship and ruling against Trump’s administration, according to The Hill.

This ruling ensured that thousands of children of Haitian immigrants born on American soil were American citizens. There is no definitive number, but, according to different pro-immigrant organizations and companies, including FWD, the Center for Migration Studies, and DeMine Immigration Law Firm, there are somewhere between 34,300 and 50,000 ethnically Haitian children who were born in the United States.

Moreno recently introduced a bill to ensure that these children would lose their citizenship.

“The Supreme Court ignored the 14th Amendment and handed a win to the CCP. Every foreign enemy of the United States will utilize this irresponsible decision to harm American citizens and interests at home,” he wrote on Tuesday. “Congress needs to act now.”

The Supreme Court ignored the 14th Amendment and handed a win to the CCP. Every foreign enemy of the United States will utilize this irresponsible decision to harm American citizens and interests at home.

Congress needs to act now. https://t.co/SL1dsqEhfa

— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) June 30, 2026

In a post to X, Fox News’s Congressional Reporter Bill Melugin wrote on X that in 1993, “late Senator Harry Reid, D-Nevada, introduced a bill that would’ve eliminated birthright citizenship,” but the Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993 “never made it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.”

Moreno responded to Melugin’s post by saying that he will “reintroduce this exact bill” when he returns to Washington, D.C.

I will reintroduce this exact bill when I return to DC. Let’s see how today’s DC Democrats will vote when offered the ideas of the Democrat party that used to love this country and the American people! https://t.co/ezw50vEaoD

— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) June 30, 2026

“Let’s see how today’s DC Democrats will vote when offered the ideas of the Democrat party that used to love this country and the American people!” he wrote in his post.

Moreno then published a press release on his website, providing details regarding the bill.

“Before far-left radicals took over the Democrat Party, their leader Harry Reid introduced a great bill to end birthright citizenship, ensure no illegals could vote, and crack down on employers who abuse illegal labor,” Moreno wrote. “It’s a great bill, so I say let’s vote on it and find out once and for all if Harry Reid would still have a home in the modern Democrat Party.”

If Moreno’s bill becomes law, birthright citizenship would not apply to “children born in the U.S. to mothers who are neither U.S. citizens nor lawful permanent residents and who remain subject to a foreign country’s jurisdiction.”