DHS Wins Emergency Bid to End Honduras, Nepal Migrant Relief (2)

Migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal will lose temporary deportation protections after the Ninth Circuit stayed a lower court order preserving that relief while litigation unfolds.

The Department of Homeland Security is likely to succeed with arguments that a San Francisco federal judge lacked jurisdiction over its decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status designations for the countries, a US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel found.

It’s the latest legal development in multiple, ongoing court feuds over the Trump administration’s removal of TPS protections as part of a larger mass deportation agenda. The TPS program lets immigrants ...