Biden Judge Slammed Gavel When Kristi Noem Called Haitians This One Name
Trump tried ending Haiti protections in his first term but the courts blocked him.
Now a Biden-appointed judge just did it again.
And Judge Ana Reyes slammed the gavel when Kristi Noem called Haitians this one name.
Biden Judge Ana Reyes Blocks Trump's Haiti Deportation Plan Hours Before Deadline
Judge Ana Reyes handed Trump a stinging defeat Monday when she blocked his plan to strip legal protections from 350,000 Haitians living in America.
The Biden-appointed judge issued an 83-page opinion that reads more like a political manifesto than a legal ruling.
Reyes opened by quoting George Washington about welcoming immigrants, then spent the next 82 pages lecturing the Trump Administration about how they're doing immigration policy wrong.
Trump designated Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to clean up the immigration mess Biden created, including terminating Temporary Protected Status for Haitians that was granted after Haiti's 2010 earthquake.
That earthquake happened 15 years ago.
Biden's team extended the protections over and over again despite the program being called temporary.
Noem announced in November that TPS for Haitians would expire February 3, pointing out that conditions don't even matter anymore because allowing them to stay is against America's national interest.
Five Haitian TPS holders sued in July to block the termination.
Reyes sided with them and declared Noem's decision "null, void, and of no legal effect" during the legal fight.
The judge claimed Noem's decision was "substantially likely" motivated by "hostility to nonwhite immigrants" rather than legitimate policy concerns.
There's that race card again.
Judge Reyes Goes After Noem's Social Media Posts
Reyes zeroed in on Noem calling for a travel ban from Haiti and "every damn country that has been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies" three days after announcing the TPS termination.
The judge quoted those exact words repeatedly throughout her ruling.
Apparently telling the truth about the border crisis is now evidence of racial animus in Biden's judiciary.
Reyes tried proving Noem wrong by highlighting the five Haitians who sued.
The plaintiffs include professionals like a neuroscience researcher, a bank software engineer, and a nurse.
Naturally, the lawyers cherry-picked the five most successful Haitians they could find.
That's how this game works.
Find the exceptions, parade them before a sympathetic judge, and pretend they represent 350,000 people.
Nobody's saying every single Haitian is a problem.
But Noem's looking at the big picture — gang violence in Haiti, overwhelmed American communities like Springfield, and a "temporary" program that's lasted 15 years.
Reyes wrote that Noem "has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants" but claimed the Constitution somehow limits how Noem implements policy.
Translation: You can say whatever you want, but I'll use those words to block you from doing your job.
The judge accused Noem of ignoring State Department warnings that Haiti remains extraordinarily dangerous with widespread gang violence, rampant disease, lack of clean drinking water, and no functioning government.
Wait — so Haiti's too dangerous for Haitians to return to, but Trump's racist for calling it troubled?
The State Department has a Level 4 "Do Not Travel" advisory for Haiti because gangs control 80% of the capital.
Yet somehow allowing 350,000 Haitians to stay here indefinitely is the only acceptable answer.
Reyes claimed Noem didn't consult with appropriate agencies before revoking TPS as required by law.
That's the bureaucratic excuse judges always use when they don't like a policy — you didn't check the right boxes, file the right forms, consult the right people.
It's lawfare disguised as legal process.
The judge concluded her opinion by mocking Noem for pounding on social media instead of having facts or law on her side.
A Biden judge lecturing about facts is rich.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin fired back immediately.
"Supreme Court, here we come," McLaughlin said.
"This is lawless activism that we will be vindicated on."
McLaughlin pointed out Haiti's TPS was granted after an earthquake 15 years ago and was never intended as a de facto amnesty program.
"Temporary means temporary and the final word will not be from an activist judge legislating from the bench," McLaughlin added.
Exactly right.
Courts Keep Blocking Trump's Immigration Agenda
This marks the second major defeat for Trump on Haiti TPS just this year.
Another federal judge blocked Noem's earlier attempt in July 2025.
Trump tried ending Haiti TPS in his first term too — another judge stopped him then.
Seeing the pattern?
Democrat-appointed judges keep blocking Trump no matter what the law says.
Reyes herself is an Uruguayan-born immigrant who Biden nominated in 2022.
The Senate confirmed her by a party-line 51-47 vote in February 2023.
She's the first Latina and first openly LGBTQ person to serve as a district court judge in Washington, D.C.
Before becoming a judge, Reyes worked at the liberal Feminist Majority Foundation trying to defeat California Proposition 209, which prohibited state institutions from considering race in decisions.
So a left-wing activist who opposes merit-based systems is now blocking Trump from enforcing immigration law.
Shocking.
Federal judges have blocked Trump immigration policies hundreds of times since January 2025.
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned in June that Trump's executive authority has been "undermined since the first hours of his presidency by an endless barrage of injunctions designed to halt his agenda."
"The American people elected President Trump to carry out his policy agenda," Bondi said.
"This pattern of judicial overreach undermines the democratic process and cannot be allowed to stand."
She's not exaggerating.
Judges have blocked Trump on birthright citizenship, asylum restrictions, deportation procedures, funding freezes, and now TPS terminations.
The Trump Administration got so fed up they filed an extraordinary lawsuit in June against all 15 federal judges in Maryland over their order blocking immediate deportations.
That's how bad it's gotten — Trump had to sue an entire court.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller calls it exactly what it is: "judicial tyranny."
He's argued repeatedly that Democrat judges are inventing weak legal arguments against existing laws and Trump's 2024 mandate.
Trump won in a landslide on a platform of securing the border and deporting illegal aliens.
Voters spoke loud and clear.
But activist judges appointed by Obama and Biden keep blocking him from carrying out the policies 76 million Americans demanded.
Supreme Court Offers Trump's Only Hope
Noem has terminated TPS for 10 other countries including Venezuela, Afghanistan, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, South Sudan, Syria, Myanmar, Cameroon, and Ethiopia.
Federal judges sided with immigrants in most of those cases too.
The Supreme Court did back Trump's decision to end Venezuelan TPS last year.
That's the playbook now — lose in lower courts packed with Biden judges, appeal to the Supreme Court where Trump has a 6-3 conservative majority, and hope the adults reverse the activists.
It's exhausting and it wastes months while illegal aliens stay in America.
Springfield, Ohio knows exactly what Biden's TPS policies cost real Americans.
Roughly 15,000 Haitians flooded that working-class city of 59,000 during Biden's term.
Schools got overwhelmed.
Services got strained.
The community got transformed overnight without anyone asking residents if they wanted it.
Trump highlighted the crisis during his 2024 campaign.
Voters agreed with him.
Now a Biden judge says their votes don't matter.
The ruling protects 350,000 Haitians from deportation while lawyers drag this through appeals for months or years.
Advocates claim ending TPS would force many to return to Haiti where they'd face violence and disease.
Trump and Noem argue 15 years is long enough for a "temporary" program and that America's national interest requires ending it.
Voters sided with Trump.
But Judge Reyes thinks she knows better than the 77 million Americans who elected Trump to secure the border.
That's not how democracy works.
The Supreme Court will get the final say.
Until then, another Biden-appointed judge just proved Stephen Miller right about the courts blocking voters' will.
Sources:
- Jaja Agpalo, "Federal Judge Blocks Trump Plan to Strip Legal Status From 350,000 Haitians in 'Bombshell' Ruling," International Business Times UK, February 3, 2026.
- Suzanne Gamboa and Gary Grumbach, "Federal judge postpones Trump administration's termination of TPS for Haitians," NBC News, February 2, 2026.
- Associated Press, "Judge blocks Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians," PBS News, February 3, 2026.
- "Trump administration blocked from ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians," Fox News, February 3, 2026.
- Camilo Montoya-Galvez, "TPS for Haitians: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump's termination of protections for holders," CNN Politics, February 2, 2026.
- "Judge Denies Trump Bid to End TPS for Haitians as ICE Fears Loom," The Marshall Project, February 2, 2026.
