{"id":2568389,"date":"2026-02-10T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9th-circuit-rules-dhs-can-ax-temporary-protected-status-for-60k-foreign-nationals\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:33:45","slug":"9th-circuit-rules-dhs-can-ax-temporary-protected-status-for-60k-foreign-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9th-circuit-rules-dhs-can-ax-temporary-protected-status-for-60k-foreign-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Circuit Rules DHS Can Ax TPS For 60K Foreign Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F9th-circuit-rules-dhs-can-ax-temporary-protected-status-for-60k-foreign-nationals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2568389&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A unanimous panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Trump administration\u2019s request to stay a district court ruling that had vacated the termination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">temporary protected status<\/a> (TPS) for about 60,000 foreign nationals in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The stay allows DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to proceed with ending TPS for roughly 50,000 Hondurans, 3,000 Nicaraguans, and 7,000 Nepalis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; TPS can be designated for foreign countries facing temporary conditions that prevent safe returns, such as natural disasters or violent conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The district court had ruled that the government violated the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) in terminating TPS, issuing an order to vacate Noem\u2019s revocation of TPS for the affected groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The 9th Circuit weighed stay factors, including likelihood of success on the merits and potential irreparable harm, and found the government likely to succeed and that a stay was appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The court suggested the government could show the termination was not arbitrary or capricious, that the administrative record supports the action, that TPS law does not require considering post-designation country conditions, and that the Secretary\u2019s decision-making was adequately consulted and reasoned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The panel noted similarities to Supreme Court stay orders in Venezuela TPS cases and emphasized that stay orders must inform equitable discretion in like cases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the judges were Eric Miller (Trump appointee), Consuelo Callahan (Bush 43 appointee), and Michael Hawkins (Clinton appointee); Hawkins concurred but would not address the merits at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article ends with a byline for Shawn Fleetwood, a Federalist staff writer.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Trump Department of Homeland Security may move forward with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-immigration-officials-detained-5000-migrants-from-ukraine-in-march\/\" title=\"U.S. Immigration Officials Detained 5,000 Migrants From Ukraine in March\">ending temporary protected status<\/a> (TPS) for nearly 60,000 foreign nationals residing in the United States, a federal appellate court ruled Monday. <\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tps-v-noem-ninth-circuit-stay-order.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unanimous decision<\/a>, a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by the Trump administration to stay (&ldquo;pause&rdquo;) a December 2025 ruling by Biden-appointed District Judge Trina Thompson. That order vacated DHS Secretary Kristi Noem&rsquo;s revocation of TPS for <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5731225-deportation-protections-honduras-nepal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">approximately<\/a> 50,000 Hondurans, 3,000 Nicaraguans, and 7,000 Nepalis residing in America. <\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the DHS secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/humanitarian\/temporary-protected-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">may designate<\/a> certain foreign countries for TPS &ldquo;due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country&rsquo;s nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately.&rdquo; These conditions include natural disasters and violent conflicts, as well as &ldquo;other extraordinary and temporary conditions.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>As described by the 9th Circuit, plaintiffs &ldquo;asserted statutory and constitutional challenges to [DHS&rsquo;s] termination decisions&rdquo; in their class action lawsuit against the administration. Thompson agreed with such claims and ruled that the government violated the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), which governs &ldquo;how <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >federal administrative agencies make rules<\/a> and how they adjudicate administrative litigation,&rdquo; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/administrative_procedure_act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cornell Law School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 9th Circuit&rsquo;s three-judge panel weighed several factors when considering the Trump administration&rsquo;s request to pause Thompson&rsquo;s order, including whether it showed that it is &ldquo;likely to succeed on the merits&rdquo; and whether it will suffer irreparable harm if a stay is not granted. The judges determined that the administration satisfied such criteria and granted its request for stay, thus permitting Noem&rsquo;s cancellation of TPS for the aforementioned groups to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We conclude that the government is likely to succeed on the merits of its appeal either by showing that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gorsuch-gives-rogue-courts-the-smackdown-they-deserve\/\" title=\"Gorsuch Gives Rogue Courts The Smackdown They Deserve\">district court lacked jurisdiction<\/a> or by prevailing on plaintiffs&rsquo; arbitrary-and-capricious APA challenge,&rdquo; the court ruled.<\/p>\n<p>The 9th Circuit judges went on to note that Noem&rsquo;s termination of temporary protected status is &ldquo;an action expressly authorized by statute.&rdquo; They further observed that a &ldquo;preliminary analysis of plaintiffs&rsquo; APA claims is that the government is likely to prevail in its argument that the Secretary&rsquo;s decision-making process in terminating TPS for Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal was not arbitrary and capricious.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Specifically, the government can likely show that the administrative record adequately supports the Secretary&rsquo;s action, that the TPS statute does not require the Secretary to consider intervening country conditions arising after the events that led to the initial TPS designation, and that the Secretary&rsquo;s decision not to consider intervening conditions does not amount to an unexplained change in policy,&rdquo; the ruling reads. &ldquo;The government also can likely show that the Secretary consulted with appropriate agencies &hellip;, adequately considered conditions in Nepal, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and gave facially legitimate reasons for why terminating TPS for each country was warranted.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The other stay factors also favor the government,&rdquo; the court added. <\/p>\n<p>In granting the government&rsquo;s request, the three-judge panel also cited the U.S. Supreme Court, which has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/03\/scotus-agrees-trump-can-strip-temporary-protected-status-of-venezuelan-nationals-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">approved<\/a> similar Trump administration applications seeking to pause lower court injunctions blocking Noem from vacating TPS for Venezuela. The 9th Circuit judges noted that such &ldquo;orders contained no reasoning, so they do not inform our analysis of the legal issues in this case, and the issues in any event are not identical,&rdquo; but added that &ldquo;the stay applications involved similar assertions of harm by both parties, and we have been admonished that the Court&rsquo;s stay orders must inform &lsquo;how [we] should exercise [our] equitable discretion in like cases.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We therefore conclude that the equitable factors favor a stay,&rdquo; the court wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The three-judge panel was comprised of Judges Eric Miller (Trump appointee), Consuelo Callahan (Bush 43 appointee), and Michael Hawkins (Clinton appointee). <\/p>\n<p>Hawkins authored a concurring opinion saying that he agrees with the court&rsquo;s judgement and the part of the order &ldquo;heeding guidance from the Supreme Court&rsquo;s stay orders in the Venezuela TPS status case in this circuit.&rdquo; However, he wrote, &ldquo;I would not address the merits of the plaintiff&rsquo;s APA claims at this point in the appeal process.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. 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