Donald Trump drives Miami-Dade judicial race and Supreme Court TPS ruling affecting Haitian immigrants

In Miami-Dade County, a political wave linked to former President Donald Trump is backing Destiny Alvarez, a relatively inexperienced lawyer, in a campaign to replace incumbent Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz. Alvarez has raised nearly $160,000, with a quarter coming from Trump-aligned donors and Republican officials, in response to Ruiz’s temporary injunction that halted a controversial land transfer for a Trump presidential library project.

Separately, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5‑4 decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, rejected lower‑court efforts to pause the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians. The ruling allows the administration to move forward with the policy, which Justice Elena Kagan warned could cause “hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians … to lose their legal status and work authorization,” potentially uprooting lives across the country.