Overview
- The federal order, issued Friday in New York, keeps protections for Yemeni nationals in place during the lawsuit and preserves their work and travel permits.
- The ruling shields roughly 3,000 people, including about 2,810 current TPS holders and around 425 applicants, from being removed from the U.S.
- Judge Dale E. Ho said DHS did not follow the required process for changing TPS and rejected Kristi Noem’s social media claim about “killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.”
- The judge cited concrete risks if people were sent back, naming a Detroit patient whose unborn child needs heart care unavailable in Yemen and a Brooklyn former human rights worker targeted by militias.
- TPS lets people from countries in war or disaster live and work in the U.S.; Yemen received the designation in 2015, and the decision comes the same week the Supreme Court heard arguments on similar rollbacks.