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I’d like to see where in the federal code that federal judges were empowered to change the terms of TPS

US judge halts ending of temporary protected status for South Sudanese migrants

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked plans by the Trump administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had been granted to hundreds of South Sudanese nationals living in the United States.

US district judge Angel Kelley in Boston granted an emergency request by several South Sudanese nationals and an immigrant rights group to prevent the temporary protected status they had been granted from expiring as planned after 5 January.

The ruling is a temporary victory for immigrant advocates and a setback for the Trump administration’s broader effort to curtail the humanitarian program. It is the latest in a series of legal challenges to the administration’s moves to end similar protections for nationals from several other countries, including Syria, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua.

Kelley, who was appointed by the Democratic former president Joe Biden, issued the order after four migrants from South Sudan along with African Communities Together, a non-profit group, sued. The lawsuit alleged that action by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was unlawful and exposed them to being deported to a country facing a series of humanitarian crises.

She wrote that allowing it to take effect before the courts had time to consider the case’s merits “would result in an immediate impact on the South Sudanese nationals, stripping current beneficiaries of lawful status, which could imminently result in their deportation”.

It’s not our job to take in every person from a 3rd world shithole in perpetuity and provide them with everything

(Fox News) In a statement to Fox News Digital, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said TPS protections were “never designed to be permanent.”

“Yet another lawless and activist order from the federal judiciary who continues to usurp the President’s constitutional authority,” McLaughlin wrote. “Under the previous administration, Temporary Protected Status was abused to allow violent terrorists, criminals, and national security threats into our nation. TPS was never designed to be permanent.

“With the renewed peace in South Sudan, their demonstrated commitment to ensuring the safe reintegration of returning nationals, and improved diplomatic relations, now is the right time to conclude what was always intended to be a temporary designation.”

The benefits for South Sudanese end on January 5th. Let’s consider

On September 5, 2023, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced the extension and redesignation of South Sudan for Temporary Protected Status for 18 months, from November 4, 2023, through May 3, 2025. On May 6, 2025, DHS announced that TPS for South Sudan is extended and redesignated through November 3, 2025

So the Trump admin extended it to the beginning of November, not a full 18 months, after the Biden era extension. We do not have to keep them. This will end up being yet another loss for hyper-partisan left wing judges (Judge Angel was appointed by Biden) once it goes to a federal appeals court. Also, Judge Angel can only apply this to her Boston district, per the Supreme Court decision.