WASHINGTON: A federal judge on Friday blocked US President Donald Trump’s administration from moving ahead next week with its plans to end temporary legal protections that have allowed nearly 3,000 people from Yemen to live and work in the United States.
US District Judge Dale Ho in Manhattan issued the order at the behest of a group of Yemeni nationals who had sued over the US Department of Homeland Security’s decision to strip them effective Monday of the Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, they had been previously granted.
He issued the ruling just two days after the conservative-majority US Supreme Court took up the administration’s appeal of similar rulings that have prevented it from ending the same type of humanitarian protections that had been granted to more than 350,000 people from Haiti and 6,100 from Syria.
