The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major immigration victory Thursday, and Megyn Kelly reacted exactly the way her audience probably expected.
No soft edges. No consultant-approved phrasing. No delicate Beltway language.
Kelly celebrated the Court’s 6-3 ruling allowing the Trump administration to move forward with ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, a decision that affects hundreds of thousands of people who had been allowed to live and work legally in the United States under the humanitarian program.
Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, is designed for foreign nationals whose home countries are considered unsafe because of war, natural disaster or other extraordinary conditions. Haiti received the designation after the devastating 2010 earthquake. Syria received it during the country’s civil war.
Megyn sends a message to the Haitians who lost their TPS today:
“Go home! Get out! We know our country is better than yours. That’s because we filled it with our work ethic, culture, and values. You being here only dilutes it for us… GO BACK TO FUCKING HAITI!” pic.twitter.com/ZEMWe3rvvF
— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) June 25, 2026
Kelly’s argument was blunt, the word “temporary” has been stretched into something resembling permanent residency.
“TPS designations are supposed to be for specific periods of time. Hence the word ‘temporary.’”
She continued:
“The Obama admin granting Haitians TPS in 2010 due to the country’s devastating earthquake. Syrians receiving it in 2012 because of the country’s civil war. I mean, cry me a river. We have our own problems.”
That is the heart of the conservative argument on TPS. A temporary program, critics say, loses legitimacy if it keeps getting extended for years or even decades while Congress avoids making harder immigration decisions.
And in this case, the timeline matters.
Haitian TPS dates back to 2010. Syrian TPS dates back to 2012. For many Americans, especially those frustrated with the broader immigration system, that does not sound temporary anymore. It sounds like a workaround.
Kelly made that point in far more explosive language.
“TPS for both countries extended multiple times. And look, this has been going on for over a dozen years. Go home! Get out! We know our country is better than yours. That’s because we filled it with our work ethic and our culture and our values! You being here only dilutes it for us, those who built it and live it. And half of you people — more than half of you — won’t assimilate. We don’t want you!”
She then connected the issue to Springfield, Ohio, where Haitian immigration became a national political flashpoint during the 2024 campaign.
“We don’t care if you’re offended. Get out! Go home! Go back to f*cking Haiti! Sorry, I’m just I’m thinking about our friends in Ohio who’ve been dealing with these TPS Haitians for years now who are drunk driving all over their towns and killing people. This is the whole cats and dogs thing, like, they don’t want to live like Americans live.”
Kelly also argued that TPS had become a “backdoor” path to long-term settlement rather than temporary relief.
“This was supposed to be temporary help and it’s turned into another backdoor way of allowing someone permanent residency here.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling overturned lower-court orders that had blocked the administration from ending protections for Haitian and Syrian TPS holders. The Associated Press reported that the TPS program currently protects people from 17 countries, totaling roughly 1.3 million individuals. The ruling specifically clears the way for the administration to end protections for Haitians and Syrians.
Reuters reported that the decision affects more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants and about 6,100 Syrian immigrants, while also reinforcing the administration’s broader authority over TPS terminations.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the conservative majority. The Court held that challengers were not entitled to orders delaying the TPS terminations while litigation continued, and lower courts had limited authority to review certain executive-branch TPS decisions.
Justice Elena Kagan dissented, criticizing the administration’s move and pointing to past Trump comments about Haiti and Haitian immigrants as part of her concern about the motives behind the policy. Mediaite noted that Kagan referenced Trump’s past “dogs and cats” claim from the 2024 campaign, along with his prior remarks about Haiti and Haitians living in the U.S.
