US courts clear way for deportations of South Sudan, Myanmar nationals

Two federal judges in Boston and Chicago have rejected legal challenges, allowing the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of South Sudan and Myanmar. These rulings follow a June Supreme Court decision that limited lower courts' ability to block the administration's efforts to end TPS for people from various countries. TPS provides protection from deportation and work authorization for individuals whose home countries face conflict or disaster. The terminations will affect approximately 232 South Sudanese nationals and about 4,000 individuals from Myanmar. Immigrant-rights advocates expressed concern that these rulings leave recipients vulnerable to deportation to unstable home countries.

A federal judge in Massachusetts has approved the Trump administration's effort to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of South Sudanese nationals in the United States. Judge Patti Saris rejected a request by immigrant rights groups to maintain these protections, citing a Supreme Court ruling that allowed the administration to end TPS for Haitians and Syrians. Saris reasoned that if the Department of Homeland Security lacked authority to terminate TPS, it would also have lacked authority to grant it initially. The Department of Homeland Security had moved to terminate TPS for South Sudan, arguing the country no longer met the designation's conditions, despite ongoing civil war and displacement. This decision follows a pattern of the Trump administration seeking to end TPS for various nationalities.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nearly 3,000 Yemeni nationals living in the United States. US District Judge Dale Ho ruled on Friday in favor of a group of Yemenis who sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the decision to terminate their protections. TPS provides temporary deportation relief for individuals from countries facing conflict or disaster. The Trump administration has attempted to end TPS for 13 countries as part of an immigration crackdown, but these efforts have largely been unsuccessful in court. The DHS had planned to end TPS for Yemenis on Monday, but the judge's ruling prevents this. Advocates argue that returning Yemenis to their home country would endanger their lives due to ongoing conflict and humanitarian concerns.