Judge blocks Trump administration from ending TPS for Yemeni nationals

Days after the Supreme Court heard arguments challenging the Trump administration's termination of Temporary Protected Status for migrants from Haiti and Syria, a federal judge in New York on Friday blocked the administration from ending TPS for those from Yemen.It was the latest in a series of rulings forestalling the administration's attempts to eliminate TPS protections, which grant recipients the ability to temporarily live in the U.S. in order to escape unsafe conditions in their home country.Yemen's Temporary Protected Status had been due to expire at midnight May 4. Instead, the judge sided with 16 plaintiffs who have lived and worked in the United States, some for decades, who are among the nearly 3,000 Yemeni nationals who hold such status.Fourteen of the plaintiffs are current TPS holders, while two are first-time TPS applicants.U.S. District Judge Dale Ho decided the Department of Homeland Security, under then-Secretary Kristi Noem, terminated Temporary Protected Status for Yemen "in clear disregard" of the procedure Congress established."This Court does not write on a blank slate," the judge wrote. "Defendants have terminated TPS for more than half a dozen countries in the last six months, under circumstances nearly indistinguishable from those here. And every district court that