A federal appeals court stayed a lower court order, pausing temporary protections for about 60,000 migrants from Central America and Nepal. The stay allows the Trump administration to proceed toward removing an estimated 7,000 Nepalese whose Temporary Protected Status expired Aug. 5. The TPS designations and legal status of 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are set to expire Sept. 8, after which they will be eligible for removal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay pending appeal by the National TPS Alliance, which alleges unlawful termination of TPS. TPS prevents deportation and authorizes work, and the administration is seeking to end protections as part of expanded deportation efforts. Secretary Kristi Noem retains authority to extend TPS if homeland conditions are unsafe. Advocates note Nepalese TPS holders have lived in the U.S. more than a decade and Honduran and Nicaraguan beneficiaries since Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
SAN FRANCISCO A federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court's order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central America and Nepal. This means that the Republican administration can move toward removing an estimated 7,000 people from Nepal whose Temporary Protected Status designations expired Aug. 5.
The TPS designations and legal status of 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are set to expire Sept. 8, at which point they will become eligible for removal. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted the emergency stay pending an appeal as lead plaintiff National TPS Alliance alleges that the administration acted unlawfully in ending Temporary Protected Status designations for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.
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