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Trump administration can target Ethiopians for deportation A federal judge has decided the Trump administration can go ahead with cancelling Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which provides humanitarian protections to immigrants, for roughly 5,000 Ethiopians living in the US Trump admin scores court win to end deportation protections for Ethiopian migrants The ruling removes the final legal hurdle facing DHS as it moves forward with its TPS terminations U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston lifted a temporary hold on the decades-old TPS program, which allowed Ethiopian nationals to live and work legally in the U.S. as their home country was considered unsafe. Last year, DHS determined that Ethiopia no longer met the conditions for TPS, asserting that conditions in the country had improved. Judge clears way for termination of Ethiopians' temporary protected status A federal judge in Boston has cleared the way for the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for Ethiopian nationals. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy on Tuesday lifted the administrative stay that had been blocking the termination of the TPS program. The ruling follows other recent court orders allowing the administration to end protections for TPS holders from countries including Haiti, Somalia, Syria, and Myanmar, as part of the administration's ongoing immigration crackdown. The court rulings come after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the Trump administration could terminate TPS for Haitian nationals. The advocacy group African Communities Together filed suit in January, arguing that Ethiopia remains in a humanitarian crisis. "Should TPS for Ethiopia be terminated, all Plaintiffs will face impossible choices: to uproot their lives yet again in search of a pathway to safety in a third country; to remain in the United States without lawful immigration status, at risk of imminent immigration confinement and removal; or to relocate to Ethiopia, a country still suffering violent conflict," the group said in its original complaint. TPS status, established by the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, provides work authorization and protection from deportation if a foreign country is deemed by the government to be unsafe because of armed conflict, natural disaster, or "extraordinary and temporary conditions." In a post on X, the Department of Homeland Security said that individuals with terminated TPS should leave the U.S. "Those with terminated TPS should leave NOW," DHS said. "If they don't, we will DEPORT them #ethi #somaliamerica #somaliusa🇺🇸🇸🇴🇸🇴 #ethiopian_tik_tok🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹 #muqdisho @Omar Artan 🇸🇴 @𝐀𝐣𝐢𝐢𝐛