Trump administration actions have ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for citizens of seven countries, with DHS citing improved conditions in some places. The affected countries include Afghanistan, Haiti, Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, Nepal and Cameroon, placing roughly 60,000 people at risk of losing work authorization and deportation protection. A federal appeals court recently allowed the administration to proceed toward removing about 7,000 Nepalese after TPS expirations and left Honduran and Nicaraguan designations set to expire in September. Many Hondurans and Nicaraguans have held TPS for over 25 years. Advocacy groups have filed lawsuits challenging the terminations.
The seven countries are Afghanistan, Haiti, Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, Nepal and Cameroon, plunging many TPS holders in those US immigrant communities into confusion and fear and prompting groups of individuals and advocacy organizations to head for the courts to shield them, with varying degrees of success so far. On Wednesday, a federal appeals court 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 TPS designations expired on 5 August. The TPS designations and legal status of 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are set to expire on 8 September, at which point they will become eligible for removal from the US. The National TPS Alliance group had sued, alleging that the administration's plan was unlawful.
In the case of Honduras and Nicaragua, some of their nationals in the US have held TPS status for over 25 years, since Hurricane Mitch caused devastating damage to both countries in the late 90s. In July, the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said it was safe to return people to Nicaragua and Honduras. However, the United Nations said in a report that the Nicaraguan regime of co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has deliberately transforme
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