Key Highlights
- The U. S.
- District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued an administrative stay on Tuesday blocking the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for South Sudan.
- The termination was scheduled to take effect on Jan.
- 6.
- DHS's termination would impact about 232 South Sudanese nations who currently hold lawful status in the country under the protections, in addition to approximately 73 South Sudanese nationals who have pending applications, putting them at risk of imminent deportation, according to court documents. The lawsuit, which was brought by African Communities Together and several South Sudanese TPS holders, argued that ending TPS would immediately strip hundreds of South Sudanese nationals of lawful status, expose them to deportation and potentially cause irreversible harm if they are returned to South Sudan.
