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US courts clear way for deportations of South Sudan, Myanmar nationals
Al Jazeera • • nation
Key Points:
- Two federal judges in Boston and Chicago approved the Trump administration’s move to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for South Sudan and Myanmar, following a Supreme Court ruling allowing termination of TPS for Haiti and Syria.
- TPS provides deportation protection and work authorization to nationals from countries facing armed conflict or disasters; ending TPS affects about 232 South Sudanese and 4,000 Myanmar nationals.
- Immigrant-rights advocates challenged the termination, arguing DHS lacked authority, but judges ruled DHS has broad discretion to both end and extend TPS designations.
- The rulings remove the "administrative stay" that allowed TPS recipients to remain and work in the U.S., exposing them to potential deportation amid ongoing instability in their home countries.
- DHS General Counsel James Percival noted only TPS for Ethiopian and Somalian nationals remains blocked by courts, emphasizing that ongoing stays contradict voter preferences.
