Click here to share on social mediaA federal judge has halted the Trump administration’s plan to strip deportation protections from thousands of Ethiopians living in the United States. The ruling represents the latest legal setback to the administration’s broader push to end temporary protections for more than one million people across multiple countries. The ruling follows a similar decision a day earlier when a federal appeals court found the administration unlawfully ended protections for 600,000 Venezuelans. About a dozen countries now face TPS terminations as part of Trump’s immigration crackdown. The legal battles come as protests rock the US against the Trump administration’s deportation drive, following the killing of two American citizens by immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota this month.

Source: Ethiopian News January 31, 2026 11:05 UTC