U.S. Judge Removes Administrative Order to End TPS for Ethiopia
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U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, lifted an administrative order that had prevented the Department of Homeland Security from ending TPS for Ethiopia, denying an effort by activists to delay the end of the status further. Murphy had been the final judge holding out on allowing TPS to end for one of the more than a dozen countries for which the administration had axed TPS, after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in June that the decision to revoke TPS was unreviewable by courts in nearly all instances.
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Fox NewsU.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston lifted a temporary hold on the decades-old TPS program, which allowed Ethiopian nationals to live and work legally in the U.S. as their home country was considered unsafe. Last year, DHS determined that Ethiopia no longer met the conditions for TPS, asserting that conditions in the country had improved.
ABC NewsThe judge lifted the stay that had been blocking the program's termination. A federal judge in Boston has cleared the way for the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for Ethiopian nationals.
HuffPostU.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston lifted the last remaining judicial block on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security terminating the Temporary Protected Status designation for individual countries after the U.S. Supreme Court in June allowed the administration to end similar protections for thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.
Washington TimesJudge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee who had been the last holdout, issued an order Tuesday ending his blockade and allowing the Department of Homeland Security to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopians.
ReutersUS judge allows Trump to end thousands of Ethiopians' deportation protections - Reuters US judge allows Trump to end thousands of Ethiopians' deportation protections Reuters
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The decision to terminate the deportation protections was part of a split ruling by Murphy, who had previously issued an administrative stay in African Communities Together v. Markwayne Mullin. In the civil case, plaintiffs argued that DHS terminated the protections due to racial and national-origin discrimination.
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HuffPostAt the request of several Ethiopian nationals and the group African Communities Together, Murphy in April blocked DHS’s action, saying it disregarded statutory procedures and provided a “pretextual” rationale for ending the protections.
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TPS status, established by the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, provides work authorization and protection from deportation if a foreign country is deemed by the government to be unsafe because of armed conflict, natural disaster, or "extraordinary and temporary conditions."
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HuffPostTPS under federal law is available to people whose home countries have experienced natural disasters, armed conflicts or other extraordinary events. It provides eligible migrants with work authorization and temporary protection from deportation.
Fox NewsTemporary Protected Status (TPS) is a humanitarian program established by Congress in 1990 that grants temporary work authorization and protection from deportation to noncitizens whose home countries are deemed unsafe due to ongoing armed conflict, natural disasters or other extraordinary conditions.
Washington TimesTPS grants a stay of deportation and some other benefits, such as the right to compete for jobs and obtain driver’s licenses.
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The plaintiffs argued that the administration ignored how dangerous conditions persist in Ethiopia and that the termination of its TPS designation was part of a practice of eliminating deportation protections for people who are non-white and non-European.
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ABC News"Should TPS for Ethiopia be terminated, all Plaintiffs will face impossible choices: to uproot their lives yet again in search of a pathway to safety in a third country; to remain in the United States without lawful immigration status, at risk of imminent immigration confinement and removal; or to relocate to Ethiopia, a country still suffering violent conflict," the group said in its original complaint.
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01 ABC News The ruling follows other recent court orders allowing the administration to end protections for TPS holders from countries including Haiti, Somalia, Syria, and Myanmar, as part of the administration's ongoing immigration crackdown.
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02 Washington Times President Trump’s decade-long project to end deportation amnesties for a large swath of countries has finally come to fruition, after battling from district courts up to the Supreme Court and back down again.
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03 Washington Examiner SUPREME COURT REJECTS TRUMP’S RENEWED APPEAL IN E. JEAN CARROLL LAWSUIT Although the legal saga over TPS revocations is likely over, the Trump administration is still fighting other legal battles over immigration policies that are likely to make their way to the Supreme Court.
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04 HuffPost Former Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration first granted Ethiopians already in the United States that status beginning in 2022, citing the need to protect the African nation’s citizens from armed conflict and humanitarian suffering.
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