A federal judge on Friday permitted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to end temporary protected status (TPS) for nearly 4,000 people from Burma, also known as Myanmar, ending their protection from deportation and authorization to work in the United States.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois approved the action after the Supreme Court ruled in June in Mullin v. Doe, which held that the TPS statute generally bars courts from reviewing non-constitutional challenges to DHS decisions to end TPS designations.
The Burma TPS designation, granted for the first time in 2021 after a military coup and later extended, had been originally set to expire in January. Court orders had maintained the protections, while a class-action lawsuit challenged the termination. …
Federal Judge Approves End of Temporary Protected Status for Nearly 4,000 Burmese Nationals
