A federal judge in Boston has cleared the path for Trump to end temporary protected status for thousands on Ethiopians.
District Judge Brian Murphy on Tuesday lifted an administrative stay that had been blocking the Trump administration from ending the TPS program and is following the path of other recent rulings that allowed the termination of TPS for other individuals from Haiti, Somalia, Syria, and Myanmar. This is a part of the administration’s immigration crackdown plan.
African Communities Together, an advocacy group that filed a lawsuit in January, argued that Ethiopians are in a humanitarian crisis in their home country.
“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 original complaint read.
A post on X from the official Department of Homeland Security account told those affected that they should leave the United States and issued a warning.
“Those with terminated TPS should leave NOW. If they don’t, we will DEPORT them,” the post read.
Temporary Protected Status was established in 1952 under the Immigration and Nationality Act. It provides work authorization to those from countries that are deemed unsafe due to natural disaster, armed conflict, or “extraordinary” conditions. It also protects foreign nationals under the program from deportation.
