A U.S. appeals court granted an emergency stay allowing the administration to halt a lower-court order that had preserved Temporary Protected Status for about 60,000 migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal. The stay permits efforts to remove roughly 7,000 Nepalese whose TPS expired August 5 and places 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans at risk when their designations expire September 8. A district judge had ordered TPS terminations halted until a November merits hearing, finding plaintiffs would suffer irreparable harm and noting wider economic and social impacts from workforce and community losses. The appeals court issued no public reasoning for the stay.
Appeals court pauses an order that had protected status for Nepalese, Hondurans and Nicaraguans. A United States appeals court has 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 Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal. In a decision issued on Wednesday, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted an emergency stay pending an appeal.
This decision means that the Republican administration can move towards removing an estimated 7,000 people from Nepal whose TPS designations expired on August 5. The TPS designations and legal status of 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are set to expire September 8, at which point they will become eligible for removal. The district court's order granting plaintiffs' motion to postpone, entered July 31, 2025, is stayed pending further order of this court, wrote the judges.
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