Overview
- U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson in San Francisco blocked the administration’s attempt to end TPS for Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, finding the action unlawful and predicated on a pretext.
- The ruling preserves lawful status and work authorization for an estimated 89,000 people from those three countries while litigation continues.
- In Boston, U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley ordered a halt to deportations tied to the planned termination of South Sudan’s TPS, temporarily protecting roughly 230 current beneficiaries and some applicants with pending cases.
- DHS and USCIS had scheduled multiple TPS designations to expire on staggered dates in 2026, including Myanmar, Haiti, Ethiopia, Yemen, Somalia, Lebanon, El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine, and the 2021 Venezuela designation lapsed in November 2025.
- DHS defends the drawdown as consistent with the program’s temporary nature and cites improved conditions, while plaintiffs and U.N. experts dispute those assessments, and officials have urged use of a CBP app for voluntary departures.