San Francisco (AP) – A federal federal court on Wednesday was on the side of the Trump administration and initially stated the order of a lower court that had kept temporary protection for 60,000 migrants from Central America and Nepal on the spot.
This means that the Republican administration can stand up to an estimated 7,000 people from Nepal, the temporary protected status names of which expired on August 5. The TPS names and the legal status of 51,000 Hondurians and 3,000 Nicaraguans will expire on September 8, at this point they will be entitled to remove.
The 9th US Court of Appeals in San Francisco claimed the emergency behavior until the appeal as a senior plaintiff National TPS Alliance that the administration had acted illegally when the temporary protected status names for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal had acted.
“The order of the district court, which is to be displaced on the plaintiffs for displacement, which is registered on July 31, 2025, is up to the further order of this court,” wrote the judges, who are appointed by the Democrat Bill Clinton and the Republicans George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
The temporary protected status is a name that can be granted by the secretary of the home protection authority, which deports migrants and enable them to work. The Trump government has aggressively tried to remove protection and thus allow more people to remove them. It is part of a more comprehensive exertion by the government to carry out mass deportation from immigrants.
Secretary Kristi Noem can extend a temporary protected status to immigrants in the United States if the conditions in their home countries are classified as unsafe due to a natural disaster, political instability or other hazardous conditions.
Proponents of immigration rights say that TPS owners from Nepal have been living in the United States for more than a decade, while people from Honduras and Nicaragua have lived in the country for 26 years after the hurricane Mitch had devastated both countries in 1998.
“The Trump administration systematically eludes with immigrants who have lived lawfully in this country for decades, raise children in the US citizen, start companies and contribute to their communities,” said Jessica Bansal, lawyer of the National Day Laboratory Organization.
Noem ended the programs after he had found that the conditions no longer justified protection.
In an oblique command on July 31, the US district judge Trina L. Thompson in San Francisco kept protection during the case. The next hearing is November 18.
She said the administration ended the protection of migrant status without an “objective review of the country conditions” such as political violence in Honduras and the effects of the youngest hurricanes and storms in Nicaragua.
In response to this, Tricia McLaughlin said that deputy secretary at DHS,: “TPS should never be a de -facto -asylum system, but previous administrations have used it for decades.”
The Trump government has already ended the TPS names for around 350,000 Venezuelans, 500,000 Haitians, more than 160,000 Ukrainians and thousands of people from Afghanistan and Cameroon. Some have pending complaints about federal courts.
The plaintiff’s lawyers argued that the decisions of NoEM are illegal because they were predetermined by the campaign of President Donald Trump and motivated by racial animus.
But Drew Ensign, a deputy attorney in General of the U.S. Deputy Deputy General Prosecutor’s Office, said at a hearing on Tuesday that the government was able to suffer an ongoing irreparable damage due to its “inability to carry out the programs specified by it.
The deputy foreign minister of Honduras, Gerardo Torres, said on Wednesday that the appeal decision was unhappy. He said
“We will wait to see what the National TPS Alliance decides. It is possible that the case will be raised to the Supreme Court of the United States, but we have to wait,” he said.
In May, the US Court of Justice allowed the Trump government to end TPS names for Venezuelans. The judges did not provide any reasons that occur frequently in emergency rooms and did not decide on the underlying claims.
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Associated press journalist Marlon González in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, contributed to this report.
