US court allows Trump to end temporary protections for 60,000 migrants.
Appeals court pauses an order that had protected status for Nepalese, Hondurans and Nicaraguans.
People march during a vigil commemorating day laborer Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, who died in California while trying to escape the presence of federal immigration enforcement agents during a raid at a Home Depot in August. The Trump administration has been cracking down on immigration in many forms since taking office..
A United States appeals court has sided with the Trump administration and halted, for now, a lower court’s order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.
In a decision issued on Wednesday, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted an emergency stay pending an appeal. Immigrant rights advocates allege that the administration acted unlawfully in ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal...