Federal Judge Allows Trump Administration to End TPS for South Sudanese Nationals

On Friday, US district judge Patti Saris of the district of Massachusetts rejected an attempt by immigrant rights organizations including the New York-based African Communities Together to keep TPS for South Sudanese nationals living in the US. Saris’s decision follows a 6-3 supreme court ruling in June allowing the Trump administration to strip hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians of TPS, which granted them permission to work and live legally in the US. The supreme court’s conservative majority overturned lower court rulings in New York and Washington DC, which had blocked the administration from ending TPS for more than 350,000 Haitians and about 6,100 Syrians.