MAGA followers rebuffed Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Thursday after he spoke out against the Trump administration following a Supreme Court ruling that ended temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians.
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Lawler wrote in a post on X that he thinks the situation in Haiti is a “humanitarian and political disaster and continues to warrant an extension.”
“While I have never disputed the ability of the President to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS), I strongly disagree with ending Haitian TPS at this time,” Lawler wrote, adding that the immediate ending of this status would “create a crisis in our hospitals, nursing homes.”
Conservative social media users and MAGA supporters made their dissatisfaction with Lawler known.
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“Two things can be true at the same time. We can sympathize with those who have to leave our great country but also understand that applying the skills and education they received here back in Haiti is the only hope of ever saving that nation,” Julie Kelly, a MAGA-aligned political commentator and writer with more than 909,000 followers, wrote on X.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The worst GOP Congressman. He hurts our team more than a Democrat in his seat would. Vote him out– yes, even in the general,” Jeremy Carl, senior fellow at conservative think tank the Claremont Institute, wrote on X.
“They’ve been on this ‘temporary’ status for nearly 20 years,” Real Political Data, a conservative political commentary account with more than 58,000 followers, wrote on X.
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“Exile this guy to Haiti,” conservative writer Paul Kersey wrote on X.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
The worst GOP Congressman.
He hurts our team more than a Democrat in his seat would.
Vote him out– yes, even in the general. https://t.co/AUkPwOxgqs
— Jeremy Carl (@realJeremyCarl) June 25, 2026