Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for Haitians

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 7:44 PM EST, February 2, 2026


SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington granted to pause the termination of temporary protected status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds. The TPS designation for people from the Caribbean island country was scheduled to end on Feb. 3.

Reyes said in an accompanying 83-page opinion that plaintiffs were likely to prevail on the merits of the case, and that she found it “substantially likely” that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.” “During the stay, the Termination shall be null, void, and of no legal effect,” the judge said in her two-page order, adding that for now, the termination has no bearing on their ability to work and to be protected from detention and deportation.

Temporary Protected Status can be granted by the Homeland Security secretary if conditions in home countries are deemed unsafe for return due to a natural disaster, political instability or other dangers. While it grants TPS holders the right to live and work in the U.S., it does not provide a legal pathway to citizenship.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/haiti-springfield-immigration-ruling-202aef9c838bec43d19d6f1d67766b77

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0.pdf

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[yellow dahlia]

1. This is a relief.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. It truly is. I hope it holds. They have suffered too much already.

It's beyond embarrassing the ways that this administration has treated them.

[yellow dahlia]

3. I hope it holds.

The plan was to take away their protective status and then hunt them...literally hunt them down. Sick!

[fujiyamasan]

4. Which appellate court will this go to?

The admin will find a way to get the courts to do their bidding. They found a way to ram their nominees through over the last two decades and stack the federal courts.