US Judge Allows Trump to End Thousands of Ethiopians’ Deportation Protections

A federal judge allowed U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday to end legal ‌protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live and work in the United States.

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston lifted the last judicial block on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security terminating the Temporary Protected Status designation for individual countries after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the administration ​in June to end similar protections for thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.

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The termination of Ethiopia’s TPS designation had been challenged ​by several Ethiopian nationals and the advocacy group African Communities Together, which expressed disappointment in Tuesday’s ruling.

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Former Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration first granted Ethiopians already in the United States that status ‌beginning ⁠in 2022, citing the need to protect the African nation’s citizens from armed conflict and humanitarian suffering.

DHS under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced in December it would end those protections on the grounds that conditions no longer posed a serious threat to Ethiopians returning safely.

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