AOC accuses Trump of betraying voters after Supreme Court TPS ruling

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused President Donald Trump of “treason” after the Supreme Court handed his administration a pair of immigration victories involving Temporary Protected Status and asylum claims.

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, clearing the way for the administration to strip legal protections that have allowed many Haitians to stay and work in the United States since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and TPS designations for many Syrians since the country’s civil war in 2012.

Ocasio-Cortez (DY) told Fox News Digital that the TPS decision targets people who Trump supporters have been told would not be the focus of his aggressive immigrant deportation agenda.

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“I think it’s really sad because these decisions target exactly the kind of people that Republican voters say they don’t want to be targeted in the Trump administration’s immigration policy,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

He argued that the decision amounted to “a reversal of President Trump’s promise to only go after criminals and rapists.”

“This decision to reverse TPS targets nurses, it targets healthcare workers, it targets domestic workers, it targets cleaners, it targets people who work in restaurants,” he said, calling it “a true betrayal of President Trump’s word.”

Ocasio-Cortez also argued that the decision would harm U.S. citizens by increasing prices, making it harder to find workers, and also tear apart long-standing communities.

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., criticized Trump and Republicans for the asylum decision and said the president had “repeatedly” attacked a process that has been part of U.S. law for decades.

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

“People are fleeing terrible conditions and they have the legal right to seek asylum,” Aguilar said.

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“Temporary Protected Status was always meant to be temporary,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson said Thursday. he said. “This was never intended as a path to permanent status or citizenship… Our asylum system has been abused and exploited by bad actors for years… This decision is a step in the right direction to clean up our asylum system and ensure that people who shouldn’t be here can’t enter our country and people who are here, who shouldn’t be here, are deported.”

When asked what Democrats’ next step would be on TPS, Aguilar pointed to legislation that Democrats said was forced out of the House with a discharge petition.

“Democrats have led legislation to finalize this. It is being considered in the Senate,” Aguilar said. “We pushed the expulsion petition and were successful because we believe in the administration.”

Aguilar appears to be referring to legislation passed by the House that aims to expand TPS protections for Haitians.

Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Ala., said she hasn’t read the full rulings yet but is “beyond the point of being surprised by almost every decision that comes out of the court.”

Congresswoman Shomari Figures, D-Ala., speaks at a news conference on health care with other members of the House Democratic caucus in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 12, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anatolia via Getty Images)

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The figures defended TPS for Haiti, citing natural disasters, political instability and violence.

“There is no country that I think was inherently designed for TPS and that deserves it more than the situations we are seeing right now in Haiti,” Figures said.