Ninth Circuit Lets Trump Nix Protections for 60,000 Migrants (2)

Aug. 20, 2025, 8:51 PM UTCUpdated: Aug. 21, 2025, 1:30 PM UTC

The Department of Homeland Security can for now go forward with terminating temporary deportation protections for 60,000 migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal, after the Ninth Circuit paused a lower court postponement of the Trump administration’s actions.

The two-page order Wednesday from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is the latest court win for the administration’s efforts to remove humanitarian relief for hundreds of thousands in the US.

A federal judge in San Francisco last month granted a request to postpone the Temporary Protected Status terminations, finding plaintiffs were likely to succeed with claims that the cancellations ...

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