A federal judge has lifted the remaining court order blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopia, following a Supreme Court ruling limiting judicial review of TPS terminations.
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The Trump administration can move forward with ending Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopia after a federal judge on Tuesday removed what was described as the final court-ordered obstacle to the administration’s broader TPS termination effort.
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy lifted his stay preventing the Ethiopia designation from being terminated, according to Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin.
Melugin reported that Murphy’s order represented the last remaining judicial block on President Donald Trump’s TPS revocations.
The administration has also moved to terminate protected status for immigrants from Somalia, Honduras, Afghanistan, Haiti, Yemen, Syria, South Sudan, Venezuela and several other countries.
Murphy’s decision follows a June Supreme Court ruling that found federal courts lacked authority to review TPS revocations, substantially changing the legal landscape surrounding challenges to the administration’s immigration policy.
That ruling has already affected other pending cases.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs previously lifted a stay that had prevented the administration from ending TPS for Somalia, acting after the Supreme Court decision.
Tuesday’s Ethiopia ruling follows the same broader pattern, clearing another path for the Department of Homeland Security to carry out TPS terminations without the court restrictions that had previously delayed implementation.
Temporary Protected Status allows qualifying nationals of designated countries to remain temporarily in the United States when conditions such as war, natural disasters or other extraordinary circumstances make returning home unsafe.
The Trump administration has sought to end a number of those designations as part of its wider immigration policy.
With Murphy’s stay now lifted, the Ethiopia designation no longer faces the judicial block that had prevented the administration from proceeding.
Attention is also turning to El Salvador, whose TPS designation is scheduled to expire Sept. 9.
The administration is not expected to renew that protection, particularly given Washington’s friendly relationship with the government of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
The Ethiopia decision therefore marks another step in the administration’s effort to unwind multiple TPS programs after the Supreme Court sharply limited the ability of lower courts to intervene in those determinations.
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