US judge allows Trump to end thousands of Ethiopians' deportation protections

A federal judge on Tuesday allowed US President Donald Trump's administration to end legal protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live and work in the United States, Report informs referring to The Straits Times.

US District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston lifted the last remaining judicial block on the US Department of Homeland Security terminating the Temporary Protected Status designation for individual countries after the US Supreme Court in June allowed the administration to end similar protections for thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.

The Supreme Court's ruling, powered by its 6-3 conservative majority, curtailed the ability of judges to review DHS efforts under Trump to end TPS designations for 13 countries that provided humanitarian immigration protection to eligible migrants from those nations.

Former Democratic President Joe Biden's administration first granted Ethiopians already in the United States that status beginning in 2022, citing the need to protect the African nation's citizens from armed conflict and humanitarian suffering.