"A federal judge on Tuesday blocked plans by the Trump administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had been granted to hundreds of South Sudanese nationals living in the United States. US district judge Angel Kelley in Boston granted an emergency request by several South Sudanese nationals and an immigrant rights group to prevent the temporary protected status they had been granted from expiring as planned after 5 January."
"The lawsuit alleged that action by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was unlawful and exposed them to being deported to a country facing a series of humanitarian crises. South Sudan has been ravaged by conflict since winning independence from Sudan in 2011. Fighting has persisted in much of the country since the end in 2018 of a five-year civil war that killed an estimated 400,000 people, and the US Department of State advises citizens not to travel there."
US district judge Angel Kelley in Boston granted an emergency request to stop Temporary Protected Status for South Sudanese nationals from expiring after 5 January. Four migrants from South Sudan and African Communities Together sued, alleging DHS unlawfully moved to end protections and exposed beneficiaries to deportation to a country in crisis. South Sudan has experienced persistent conflict since independence in 2011, including post-2018 fighting after a five-year civil war that killed an estimated 400,000 people; the US State Department advises against travel there. About 232 South Sudanese hold TPS and 73 have pending applications. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem published a notice on 5 November terminating TPS for South Sudan and has pursued similar terminations for other countries.
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