Overview
- U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy, who lifted his administrative stay Tuesday, removed the last federal judicial obstacle to the administration’s roll‑out of TPS terminations and allowed DHS to put those revocations into effect.
- The administration and DHS officials have said the terminations are now active and warned affected people to leave or face deportation, while DHS has begun enforcement steps such as call‑in notices and case processing.
- Analysts and advocates estimate roughly one million people from a dozen countries could lose TPS protections and work permits, creating immediate labor gaps in sectors like nursing homes, home care, construction, and other services.
- Legal challenges will continue because courts preserved constitutional claims that the terminations were motivated by racial or national‑origin animus, even as nonconstitutional review has been sharply limited by a June Supreme Court ruling.
- TPS is a temporary humanitarian program created to grant work authorization and deportation protection when a home country is unsafe, and the administration argues it is restoring the program’s temporary scope while states, employers, and advocates warn of major human and economic consequences.