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handle is hein.crs/govyjn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional ______ SResearch Service Federal District Court Enjoins the Department of Homeland Security from Terminating Temporary Protected Status Updated March 18, 2019 Update: In February 2019, several months after this Sidebar was originally published, a lawsuit was filed in the US. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) decisions to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for Nepal and Honduras. Like the plaintiffs in Ramos v. Nielsen, the plaintiffs in the new lawsuit (Bhattarai v. Nielsen) argued that DHS's decisions to end the TPS designations for Nepal and Honduras inexplicably departed from the agency's longstanding policies governing TPS determinations, and that the agency's actions were motivated by racial and national origin discrimination. On March 12, 2019, the federal district court granted the parties 'stipulated request to stay the proceedings pending adjudication of the Government's appeal of the court's preliminary injunction issued in Ramos v. Nielsen. Further, the Government has agreed not to terminate the TPS designations for Nepal and Honduras pending resolution of that appeal. Therefore, absent a superseding court order, TPS beneficiaries from Nepal and Honduras will generally be permitted to remain and work in the United States pending the outcome of Ramos. The original post from November 9, 2018, is below. Certain non-U.S. nationals (aliens) who otherwise might be subject to removal from the United States are permitted to stay and work here when their countries are designated for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS is a designation that may be granted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to countries experiencing unstable or dangerous conditions due to armed conflict, natural disaster, or other extraordinary circumstances. In the past year, DHS announced the termination of TPS designations for Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, El Salvador, Nepal and Honduras. The agency's decisions affect more than 300,000 TPS beneficiaries who may no longer be authorized to remain in the United States upon the effective termination date of their countries' TPS designations. Several lawsuits have challenged DHS's decisions on various constitutional and statutory grounds. Recently, in Ramos v. Nielsen, a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction enjoining DHS from terminating the TPS designations for Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, and El Salvador. While the federal government has appealed that decision, TPS Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov LSB10215 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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