A federal appeal court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to eliminate temporary exile security for more than 60,000 people from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal – at least for now.
Last month a lower court Blocked The Homeland Security Department of Temporary Protected Status, or by termination of TPS, to give more time to the court to weigh the issue by at least mid -November for three countries. The judge biased with the plaintiff, who argued the trump administration’s plan to fly to TP, “was inspired by racial anims.”
But on Wednesday, the US Circuit Court of Appeal for 9th Circuit Catch that decision Pending appeal. This order – which was issued by a panel of three judges nominated under Clinton, Bush and the first Trump administration – did not offer a justification for the decision.
Thousands of migrants from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal rely on TPS, a program that temporarily grants from exile and work permits, whose home countries consider insecure due to war or natural disaster.
If they have no other means of living legally in the US – such as a green card or an refuge application – people who lose their TPS are no longer eligible to function legally in the country and are in danger of exile.
Prior to last month’s decision, the Trump administration sought to abolish TPS for Nepal on 5 August, and to Nicaragua and Honduras in early September.
American Civil Liberty Union of Southern California – One of the organizations that sued the administration on TPS decision – called Wednesday’s decision “disastrous.”
“I am heartbroken by the court’s decision,” Sandhya Lama said in a statement issued by ACLU, one of the plaintiffs in the case. “I have been in America for years, and my children are American citizens and have never gone to Nepal. This ruling leaves us and thousands of other TPS families in fear and uncertainty.”
CBS News has reached DHS for comments.
Homeland Security Secretary Christie NoM has sought to air TP for hundreds of migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Haiti, Venezuela and other countries, arguing that their security is very long or has improved to allow their citizens to return in situations in those nations.
For example, the Trump administration has noted that TPS programs for Honduras and Nicaragua were first built in 1999, when Hurricane Mich caused horrific floods and thousands of people died in Central America. The TPS program for Nepal was announced in 2015, when an earthquake occurred in a small Asian country. DHS Secretary Christie Nom has said that all three countries have recovered from those environmental disasters.
But San Francisco -based US District Judge Tina Thompson said that the TPS holders sued NOM last month were likely to argue that their decisions did not consider their decisions “predetermined” fully in Honduras, Naple and Nicaragua.
The judge also referred to a comment made by President Trump during the 2024 campaign, stating that the migrants who illegally entered the US were poisoning our country’s blood. “
