Judge voids decision to end legal status of 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua
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Key Points:
- A federal judge in California invalidated the Trump administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua, deeming the decision "pre-ordained" and lacking objective review.
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had ended the TPS programs for these countries, citing recovery from environmental disasters that initially justified the temporary protections.
- TPS, established by Congress in 1990, grants temporary deportation protection and work permits to nationals of countries experiencing conflict or disasters, with Honduras and Nicaragua's designations dating back to Hurricane Mitch in the 1990s and Nepal's to a 2015 earthquake.
- Judge Trina Thompson found that the termination was influenced by
