Judge extends migrant status protections for 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal

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Source: AP

Updated 8:25 PM EDT, July 31, 2025


SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in California extended on Thursday temporary protected status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem determined that conditions in their home country no longer warranted protections.

Temporary Protected Status designations for an estimated 7,000 from Nepal was scheduled to end Aug. 5. And protections allowing 51,000 Hondurans and nearly 3,000 Nicaraguans to reside and work lawfully in the U.S. for more than 25 years were set to expire Sept. 8. The secretary said both Honduras and Nicaragua had made “significant progress” in recovering from 1998’s Hurricane Mitch.

Temporary Protected Status is a temporary protection that can be granted by the Homeland Security secretary to people of various nationalities who are in the United States, which prevents them from being deported and allows them to work. The Trump administration has aggressively been seeking to remove the protection, thus making more people eligible for removal.

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1. "Homeland Security" is one of the first departments

I want to see relegated to the trash bin of bad ideas when we can get back the government. I detested it when Bush pushed it through, and I didn't agree with the way he entangled the CIA and the FBI. Yeah, I know... they needed "better communications" but I think that could have been accomplished in better ways than simply creating another department on top of the hierarchy. I saw it (and still see it) as just one more federal police department. Customs and Immigration people were bad enough, but the expanded and over-used ICE is just an example of a private army for the president, IMO. Once they're done with immigration, they'll move on to capture us elderly, infirm, non-conforming christians, and Democrats. Under the guise of "protecting National Security" of course. I can swing my cane in a pretty good arc, come to think of it! (LOL)

We have a huge military, with Reserves and National Guard standing ready for recall when needed (or desired). Add to that all the different departments in the Federal government that have anything to do with law enforcement, add that to the local, county, and state police departments, and you can easily see how we've long since tipped the page towards fascism. He needs all those mad, aggressive, testosterone- and steroid-driven evil brutes to keep all of us old cat ladies in line!