By THE ALASKA STORY
A federal appeals court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to proceed with ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua, lifting a lower court order that had blocked the move.
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco temporarily stayed a December ruling by a federal judge in California that had blocked the Department of Homeland Security from terminating the protections. The appeals court’s order allows the administration to move forward with ending TPS for nearly 89,000 foreign nationals while the underlying legal challenge plays out on appeal.
TPS is a humanitarian immigration program that provides legal status, work authorization and protection from deportation to people from countries experiencing armed conflict, environmental disaster or other extraordinary conditions that make return unsafe. The program does not provide a path to U.S. citizenship but allows beneficiaries to live and work in the United States for a designated temporary period.
Last year, DHS announced that the United States would end TPS for Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua after determining that conditions in those countries “no longer met the conditions for its designation.” The department said the deteriorating rationale for the original designations meant the protections were no longer justified.
In response to the appeals court’s decision, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem hailed the ruling as a vindication of the administration’s legal position. In a post on X, Noem said the decision was “a win for the rule of law and vindication for the U.S. Constitution.” She added that TPS was never intended to be permanent and that previous administrations had treated it as a de facto amnesty program.
The appeals panel found the government was likely to prevail in defending its decision-making process and that the rule blocking the terminations should be put on hold during the appeal. The ruling does not end the broader lawsuit but allows the administration to proceed with the terminations while the case continues.
Beneficiaries and advocacy groups had challenged the administration’s actions in federal court, arguing that DHS failed to consider ongoing conditions in the three countries and violated federal administrative law. Another challenge is expected of the Ninth Circuit ruling, which would then send the case to the Supreme Court.
9 thoughts on “Federal Appeals Court allows Trump Administration to end temporary protected status for Hondurans, Nepalese and Nicaraguans”
Despicable. Trump and Noem are the personification of evil.
Why are you commenting on American domestic concerns? Maybe try and end the oppressive caste structure in your own country.
It’s 3 AM and once again Kristi Noem cannot sleep. She tosses fitfully next to her man Corey, trying to claim back the peaceful realm of slumber, but it will not come. She worries about her soul, and wonders when the nasty bi*ch called Karma will come for her. Having knowingly sacrificed her integrity and secretly ashamed for having done so, she understands that there is now no way out. Fretful, she tries thinking pleasant thoughts, but visions of the brutality she has unleashed continue to break through. Finally she rises, dreading once again the day that lies ahead. Looking in the mirror, she sees an aging, craggy visage that grows more grotesque by the day. “More makeup.”, she bitterly concludes.
Is it worth it, Kristi? You have regrets, but know you’re trapped. You desperately hope that Trump will fire you, even while understanding that this will not free your conscience.
Every single illegal needs to go.
And if violent marxists interfere then they can go to prison. And if they are an active threat they will be shot. No regrets. No tears.
Ah Micah, your Christian charity continues to shine through. And your attitude belies your apparently Christian byline.
So why are you so dead set against all illegals? Sure, the criminals need to go. Everyone agrees with that. But the others who came (as your ancestors probably did long ago) in search of a better life, are not impacting you negatively in any way. In fact, they pay taxes and someday, if not already, they will help to pay for your Medicare and Social Security.
So, you see, you’re hating on them solely because that’s what MAGA does. You have made no independent judgement yourself, nor have you evaluated the situation in an objective, thoughtful (or Christian!) manner. Like another MAGA lemming, you simply repeat what you’ve heard and over the cliff you go.
Karma will surely come for you, and if your theology actually turns out to be true, so is Judgement Day.
“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,1 you did it to me.’ =Matthew 25
Evan and Hans, whay are you both so emotional about following the law why aren’t you working to change it, and why didn’t you do so under the previous Obama/Biden/Harris Administrations? You both realize, of course, that the Obama/Biden/Harris Administrations supported these exact laws and that they deported more people than the Trump Administration.
“The highest number of annual immigrant deportations in recent years occurred during the first years of the Obama Administration reaching about 400,000 per year.” And “Interior removals were particularly high during President Obama’s first term, averaging over 200,000 per year. The Trump administration removed an average of 80,000 people from the country ‘s interior annually”
Honestly you should be attacking Trump for not doing what he said he’d do and for doing a worse job than the Obama/Biden/Harris Administrations. But hysterical rants based upon false narratives are so much more fun for some emotionally driven folks in the left.
It’s partly what’s being done, but it’s mostly about HOW it’s being done. The cruelty is the point. That’s sick. It should offend you too, Steve-O.
Hans,
It’s kinda ironic how you accuse Micah of simply repeating what he’s heard with no independent judgement for himself, and yet three minutes later you simply repeat the same talking point that the lemmings on the left are trying to pass off as nuance. You repeat the cruelty line that has been fed to you, yet when Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias abandoned his five year old son, that was cruelty on full display and many on the left lied about what happened.
The accusation of cruelty is not the product of a lemming brain, it’s the obvious conclusion one gets by watching the videos. You’ve seen them too. Lawless fear and intimidation is the goal and it didn’t work very well in Minneapolis. Good for MN. Unnecessary, hidden, over-weaponized and overwhelming force against camera wielding citizens resulting in injury, unlawful incarceration and murder is fine evidence of cruelty. Hans is right. As a human, you should be offended. You should be outraged.