A federal judge on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to end deportation protections for Ethiopian immigrants, putting into effect all of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) terminations the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pursued for select countries.U.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.The decision removes the final legal hurdle facing DHS after the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled in June that the administration could terminate similar protections for thousands of people from Haiti and Syria."ALL TPS terminations are now IN EFFECT," the DHS said in a post on X."Those with terminated TPS should leave NOW.
If they don’t, we will DEPORT them."TRUMP SCORES MAJOR IMMIGRATION VICTORY AS JUDGE CLEARS WAY TO END TPS PROTECTIONS FOR THOUSANDS OF SOMALISFILE - Ethiopian nationals covered by TPS could now face deportation after the latest federal court ruling.(GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)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.In the ruling, Murphy found that DHS has the authority to terminate TPS designations and that individuals were not entitled to individual hearings before the nationwide program was terminated.SUPREME COURT'S LATEST IMMIGRATION RULING WILL CAUSE AMERICANS TO 'DIE AND SUFFER' ATTORNEY WARNSFILE - The Department of Homeland Security declared all of its TPS terminations are now in effect.
(Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)Concurrently, Murphy a...