1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Ninth Circuit Decision Allows Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Sudan, Nicaragua, and El Salvador to Go Forward Updated January 12, 2021 Certain non-U.S. nationals (aliens) who otherwise might
2、 be subject to removal from the United States may stay and work here when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designates their countries for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) because of unstable or dangerous conditions in those countries. In 2017 and 2018, DHS announced the termination of TPS d
3、esignations for Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, El Salvador, Nepal, and Honduras. The agencys decisions affect more than 400,000 TPS beneficiaries from those six countries who may no longer be authorized to remain in the United States upon the effective termination date of the countries TPS designations. S
4、everal lawsuits have challenged DHSs decisions on various constitutional and statutory grounds. Recently, in Ramos v. Wolf, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower courts preliminary injunction enjoining DHS from ending the TPS designations for four of those countriesSudan,