Overview

• U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson issued an injunction on August 1 blocking DHS from revoking TPS protections for migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal.
• The ruling identifies deficiencies in DHS’s procedural review and finds likely racial animus in key statements by Secretary Kristi Noem and President Trump.
• About 61,000 TPS holders—roughly 51,000 Hondurans, 7,200 Nepalese and 2,900 Nicaraguans—will preserve their legal work authorization and deportation protection under the order.
• TPS recipients would immediately lose their right to work, work-related health benefits and immunity from deportation if the designations were terminated.
• The injunction remains in effect until a merits hearing on November 18, and the administration plans to appeal the decision.