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A federal appeals court in California on Wednesday authorized the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal, marking another victory for the White House in its effort to eliminate the immigration benefit.
The Ninth Circuit ruling
A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a district court order that had upheld the injunction. The decision directly affects 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans, many of whom have legally resided in the United States for more than 26 years, as well as thousands of Nepalese beneficiaries who have been in the country for more than a decade.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will now have 60 days to terminate their status, leaving those affected without work authorization or protection from deportation.
Conflicting arguments
DHS Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin defended the measure, saying it responds to the need to "restore the integrity of the immigration system" and stressed that “TPS was never intended as a de facto asylum system.”.
Civil rights organizations, for their part, rejected the ruling. Emi MacLean, a lawyer with the ACLU of Northern California, called it part of a “coordinated campaign to deprive immigrants of any legal status”.
Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy, warned that the plaintiffs “deserve better” than the judicial setback.
Impact on communities
The ruling means that Nepalese beneficiaries will lose their status immediately, while Honduran and Nicaraguan beneficiaries will lose their status starting September 8.
Jessica Bansal, lawyer for the National Day Laborers Network (NDLON), warned that the cancellation will cause “enormous hardships for tens of thousands of families, including more than 40,000 U.S. citizen children of TPS recipients”.
Meanwhile, consulates have provided free legal advice and respectful guidance to support families affected by the ruling.
A broader policy
This move is part of the Trump administration's immigration policy, which has also canceled TPS for 350,000 Venezuelans, half a million Haitians, and migrants from other countries, consolidating a restrictive shift toward humanitarian temporary protection programs.
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