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Ruling marks legal setback for administration\u2019s efforts to roll back protections for various groups of immigrants.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 9 Apr 2026<\/span>9 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A federal judge has blocked the administration of President Donald Trump from revoking legal protections for about 5,000 Ethiopians that permit them to live and work in the United States without fear of deportation.<\/p>\n District Judge Brian Murphy issued the ruling on Thursday, marking the latest setback for the administration\u2019s efforts to roll back legal immigration status for people from largely non-Western countries.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Murphy also cited Congress\u2019s role in setting standards for how Temporary Protected Status (TPS) should be granted and revoked. Trump, the judge said, had ignored those procedures.<\/p>\n \u201cFundamental to this case \u2014 and indeed to our constitutional system \u2014 is the principle that the will of the President does not supersede that of Congress,\u201d Murphy wrote. \u201cPresidential whims do not and cannot supplant agencies\u2019 statutory obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n The Trump administration has attempted to nix TPS designations for 13 countries, part of its efforts to restrict migration to the US and expel certain groups already living in the country.<\/p>\n TPS grants eligible foreigners in the US the right to remain and work in the country, if their home is deemed temporarily unsafe, due to conflict, natural disaster or other \u201cextraordinary\u201d conditions.<\/p>\n In his decision, Murphy cited an executive order Trump signed in January 2025 that\u00a0instructed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to review whether TPS designations were \u201cappropriately limited in scope\u201d.<\/p>\n That order, he said, gave DHS a \u201cpretextual\u201d basis to eliminate TPS designations, bypassing the normal protocols.<\/p>\n It sent the signal that \u201cthe outcome of designation, extension, and termination decisions will be preordained, rather than based on a meaningful review of in-country conditions,\u201d according to Murphy.<\/p>\n A DHS spokesperson responded to the Thursday ruling by stating that it was \u201cjust the latest example of judicial activists trying to prevent President Trump from restoring integrity to America\u2019s legal immigration system\u201d.<\/p>\n Ethiopians were first granted TPS in 2022 under Trump\u2019s Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, due to armed conflict and humanitarian suffering. Their protected status was extended in April 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ruling marks legal setback for administration\u2019s efforts to roll back protections for various groups of immigrants. Published On 9 Apr 20269 Apr 2026 A federal judge has blocked the administration of President Donald Trump from revoking legal protections for about 5,000 Ethiopians that permit them to live and work in the United States without fear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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