A federal judge on Wednesday said President Trump cannot end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Ethiopians.
In 2022, the Biden Regime allowed more than 5,000 Ethiopians to enter the US and live here with special protections.
Their TPS status was extended again in April 2024 and expired on February 13, 2026.
Upon taking office again in January 2025, President Trump immediately revoked the Biden-era ‘Temporary Protected Status’ and ordered the DHS to ensure that the TPS designations were limited.
On Wednesday US District Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, said President Trump violated the process by revoking the protections.
Judge Murphy postponed the effective date of the termination of Ethiopia’s TPS designation.
Reuters reported:
A federal judge on Wednesday halted a move by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to end legal protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live and work in the United States.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston marked the latest legal setback for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to terminate the Temporary Protected Status designation for 13 countries in furtherance of Trump’s hardline immigration agenda.
Earlier this year, Judge Murphy issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and blocked the Trump Administration from ending the protection for the Ethiopians.
The DHS previously slammed the judge for his decision:
After reviewing country conditions and consulting with the appropriate U.S. government agencies, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem determined that Ethiopia no longer met the conditions for its designation for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
See Termination of the Designation of Ethiopia for Temporary Protected Status, 90 Fed. Reg 58028 (Dec. 15, 2025). Ethiopia’s TPS designation and related benefits were slated to terminate on Feb. 13, 2026.
However, on Jan. 30, 2026, a single judge in the U.S. District of Massachusetts stayed the Secretary’s TPS termination decision. African Communities Together et al. v. Noem et al., No. 26-cv-10278-BEM (D. Mass.).
The judge did so even though the Department of Homeland Security recently prevailed twice in the U.S. Supreme Court in a similar case.
The Department of Homeland Security vehemently disagrees with this order and is working with Department of Justice to determine next steps.
The Supreme Court this month will hear oral arguments on the Trump Administration’s decision to end TPS for hundreds of thousand of Haitians and Syrians.
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