Continue to Protect the Status of 60,000 People from Central America and Nepal

• The court has extended TPS for 60,000 individuals from Central America and Asia.
• Protection for Nepal, Honduras, and Nicaragua has been extended due to racial motivations.
• The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security noted progress in the home countries of migrants.

On Thursday, July 31, 2025, a federal court in California continued the temporary protected status (TPS) for 60,000 individuals from Central America and Asia, including Nepal, Honduras, and Nicaragua. This protection, previously terminated by the Trump administration, allows migrants to remain and work in the U.S.

Temporary status for nearly 7,000 individuals from Nepal was set to expire on September 5, while protection for 51,000 Hondurans and over 3,000 Nicaraguans was set to end on August 8. The Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, indicated that the conditions in their home countries no longer require protection.

Judge Trina L. Thompson in San Francisco stated that the plaintiffs provided evidence that the government's decision to terminate the status was racially motivated, and upheld the complaint of the National TPS Alliance, which asserts that these terminations were unlawful.

The TPS judicial practice allows the U.S. government to grant temporary status to individuals from countries where there are conditions that jeopardize their safe return, such as natural disasters or political instability. The Trump administration actively sought to terminate this protection for many groups of migrants.

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