Court Saves Protections for Central American, Nepalese Migrants

A federal judge in San Francisco granted a request to postpone the Trump administration’s cancellation of temporary protections for 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal.

“The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek. Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood. The Court disagrees,” Judge Trina Thompson, a Biden appointee to the US District Court for the Northern District of California, wrote Thursday.

Thompson ordered the postponement of the government’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for the three countries ...