Trump administration sued after it ends program for 60,000 Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Nepalese

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Source: NBC News

July 8, 2025, 2:52 PM EDT


A group of immigrants with temporary legal status in the U.S. is suing the Trump administration after the Department of Homeland Security terminated the legal protections for some 60,000 people from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal.

Seven plaintiffs from the affected countries, along with the National TPS Alliance, an advocacy group, have filed the lawsuit against DHS and the agency’s secretary, Kristi Noem, alleging that the terminations were, at least in part, motivated by racial animus and violated the Constitution.

Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal have experienced natural disasters that have made it unsafe for their nationals to return home, leading to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations. On Monday, the Trump administration terminated the designation for those from Nicaragua, with a DHS spokesperson saying in a news release that the status “never meant to last a quarter of a century.” It also terminated TPS for Honduras, with Noem similarly saying that TPS was designed to be “just that — temporary.” Just over a month ago, DHS terminated the designation for Nepal.

The terminations, the lawsuit said, will impose “extraordinary and irreparable harm” on TPS holders if the decisions aren’t reversed.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-sued-ends-program-60000-hondurans-nicaraguans-nep-rcna217354

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Link to FILING (PDF) - https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/ntpsa_ii_complaint_filed.pdf

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REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143492363

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1. Followed the links and found the filing. This makes the 35th lawsuit filed against Noem and Homeland.

https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/ntpsa_ii_complaint_filed.pdf



UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION


NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE, DENIS MOLINA, JHONY SILVA, MARIA ELENA HERNANDEZ, O.C., SANDHYA LAMA, S.K., TEOFILO MARTINEZ
Plaintiffs, v.

KRISTI NOEM, in her official capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Defendants

The gist of the complaint on page 1:

"... 3. The TPS terminations of Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua were unlawful because they were not based on an objective review of country conditions, as statutorily required, but instead the product of a preordained decision to terminate TPS and search for a rationale to support the end result. The decisions are thus arbitrary and capricious, contrary to law, and pretextual in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”).

4. The Secretary’s decisions were also unlawful because they provided only 60-days notice before her termination decisions take effect, leaving TPS holders who have lived lawfully in this country for decades with barely any time to prepare for the end of their legal status and employment authorization. No TPS termination decision in the last twenty years—including during the first Trump Administration—had ever provided so little notice for people who have had TPS for so long. Secretary Noem’s termination decisions are the first. The Secretary’s failure to provide additional time as part of an orderly transition period is an unacknowledged and unexplained deviation from historical practice that violates the Administrative Procedure Act.

5. The Secretary’s decisions also were motivated at least in part by intentional race- and national-origin-based animus, in contravention of the Fifth Amendment. Although it has become increasingly normalized, the fact remains that Secretary Noem, President Trump, and members of the Trump campaign and administration have consistently used racist invective to describe their TPS decisions involving immigrants from non-white, non-European countries, including those involving the countries at issue here.

6. For each of these reasons, this Court should set aside the agency’s unlawful termination orders...."

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2. Thanks!

When I posted this, I was under a Tornado Warning (with all the blaring radios and an EAS warning on the phones). Whatever it was looked to be about 4 - 5 miles north of me.

I'll add to the OP (I usually try to find those but... weather! )

[ancianita]

3. not a problem...

Oh no! I hope the nerve wracking danger has passed, and so sorry you've had to go through that.

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4. Well as a weather hobbyist

it was in my wheelhouse. A bunch of us were posting observations on my weather forum. I had briefly peeped outside as a gust front came through! My sisters and I were texting about it too (they don't live that far from me).

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5. Whoah.

I'd like to think some meteorologist forced into retirement might join your forum.
Given the way weather's shaping up, he could save some lives.

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6. I'll be watching this

My husband has been in the US since 1996. He has had TPS since 1998.

He has a marriage visa waiting for him in the US embassy in Tegucigalpa. He is waiting for his Waiver of Inadmissibility since if he leaves the country he has a 10 year ban on entering the country. This would allow him to come back after leaving and going to get his visa.

We have been waiting for almost 3 years now. He has no criminal record.