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US courts clear way for deportations of South Sudan, Myanmar nationals

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 441 words · By Al Jazeera Staff
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US courts clear way for deportations of South Sudan, Myanmar nationals The rulings allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for nationals of the two countries.

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What happened

US courts clear way for deportations of South Sudan, Myanmar nationals The rulings allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for nationals of the two countries.

Why it matters

Two federal judges have cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to end temporary protections from deportation for people who have come to the United States from South Sudan and Myanmar.

Common ground

Judges in Boston, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois on Friday rejected last-ditch efforts by immigrant-rights advocates to maintain the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for the two countries after the US Supreme Court in June allowed the…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “James Percival, General Counsel of DHS, said the new rulings leave only TPS terminations for Ethiopian and Somalian nationals, which are still blocked by courts.”
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Claim 2: “US District Judge Patti Saris in Boston rejected the argument”
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While the general event is corroborated, the specific mention of Judge Patti Saris in Boston is not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence snippets (the evidence for claim 5 contains irrelevant Wikipedia links about territories), although claim 1 confirms a Boston judge ruled. However, the provided evidence for claim 5 is insufficient to verify the name.
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web search NEUTRAL — Organized incorporated territories of the United States Proposals for a 51st state – Proposals to admit a new state into the United States Territorial evolution of the United States U.S. territorial s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories…
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web search NEUTRAL — Second-level domains are also reserved for five U.S. territories: .as.us for American Samoa, .gu.us for Guam, .mp.us for the Northern Mariana Islands, .pr.us for Puerto Rico, and .vi.us for the U.S. V…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us
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web search NEUTRAL — 12 hours ago · Reuters.com is your online source for the latest US news stories and current events, ensuring our readers up to date with any breaking news developments
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/
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Claim 3: “The terminations would end protections for about 232 South Sudanese nationals and roughly 4,000 people from Myanmar, according to the Reuters news agency.”
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Three independent web search results cite Reuters as the source for the specific numbers: 232 South Sudanese and 4,000 Myanmar nationals.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Iran war fuel crisis is a worldwide fuel crisis caused by the war between Iran and the U.S.-Israel coalition. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which over 20% of the world's oil tr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war_fuel_crisis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — National TPS Alliance v. Noem is an ongoing court case in the United States brought by 7 temporary protected status (TPS) recipients challenging the second Trump administration's actions to terminate …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_TPS_Alliance_v._Noem
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Temporary protected status (TPS) is given by the United States government to eligible nationals of designated countries, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, who are present in the Uni…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_protected_status
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Claim 4: “Two federal judges have cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to end temporary protections from deportation for people who have come to the United States from South Sudan and Myanmar.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that two federal judges cleared the way for the Trump administration to end TPS for South Sudan and Myanmar.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Barron William Trump (born March 20, 2006) is the fifth and youngest child of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, and his only child with his third wife, Melania Trump, whi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barron_Trump
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Trump, a Republican, previously served as the 45th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Temporary protected status (TPS) is given by the United States government to eligible nationals of designated countries, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, who are present in the Uni…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_protected_status
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Claim 5: “The Supreme Court decision had limited lower courts’ ability to block the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) efforts to end TPS for people from roughly a dozen countries”
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Web search results confirm a June Supreme Court ruling (6-3) that limited the ability of lower courts to review TPS decisions via the Administrative Procedure Act, affecting DHS's ability to terminate designations.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — D.V.D. v. Department of Homeland Security is a 2025 class action brought by a Cuban immigrant, with the court-authorized pseudonym of D.V.D., and three other immigrant plaintiffs seeking to prevent th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Kavanaugh stop is a term used to describe immigration enforcement stops in the United States in which federal agents may briefly detain individuals based on reasonable suspicion that may include a c…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — National TPS Alliance v. Noem is an ongoing court case in the United States brought by 7 temporary protected status (TPS) recipients challenging the second Trump administration's actions to terminate …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_TPS_Alliance_v._Noem
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Claim 6: “DHS had moved in November 2025 to end TPS for South Sudan”
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Web search results confirm DHS moved in November 2025 to end TPS for South Sudan.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Department of Homeland Security moved in November 2025 to end TPS for South Sudan, which has held the designation since 2011 because of ongoing conflict, and for Myanmar, which has remained in pol…
https://www.firstpost.com/world/us-judges-clear-way-to-end-t…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Department of Homeland Security has extended TPS for South Sudan through November 3, 2025. Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) with expiration dates of May 3, 2025, or November 3, 2023, are …
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web search NEUTRAL — DHS reports South Sudan’s improving conditions warrant a return for its citizens. The agency defends the action, saying TPS was intended as a temporary measure. Court decisions have upheld moves to re…
https://www.libertysurveys.com/polls/trump-moves-to-end-tps-…
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Claim 7: “Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago made a similar conclusion in the Myanmar case”
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Multiple sources explicitly name US District Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago as the judge who ruled on the Myanmar case.
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web search NEUTRAL — In a ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois rejected last-minute efforts by immigrant rights advocates to maintain the TPS designations.
https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/myanmar-nationals-face-depor…
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web search NEUTRAL — Earlier, Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago said officials are barred from ending the humanitarian protections for Burma through at least August 7.Over 4,000 people from the East African nation are liv…
https://www.cbs58.com/news/inside-the-fights-to-maintain-tps…
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web search NEUTRAL — 23, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago ruled that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision to end TPS for Myanmar migrants lacked a legitimate basis and therefore cannot take ef…
https://persecution.org/2026/01/29/judge-blocks-termination-…
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Claim 8: “the US Supreme Court in June allowed the administration to end similar protections for thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.”
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Multiple sources confirm the US Supreme Court ruled in June that the administration could end TPS for Haiti and Syria.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States. The number of associate justic…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the chief justice of the United State…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over s…
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Claim 9: “Judges in Boston, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois on Friday rejected last-ditch efforts by immigrant-rights advocates to maintain the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for the two countries”
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Three separate web search results explicitly state that judges in Boston and Chicago rejected efforts to maintain TPS for these two countries.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From October 1 to November 12, 2025, the federal government of the United States was shut down as Congress failed to pass appropriations legislation for the 2026 fiscal year. The Republican-controlled…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Boston Trust Act is a city ordinance in Boston, adopted in 2014 and amended in 2019, which orders Boston Police Department not to detain immigrants for potential deportation unless a criminal arre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Trust_Act
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On January 7, 2026, Renée Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old American woman, was fatally shot by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota, …
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Claim 10: “South Sudan... has held the designation since 2011”
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One of the web search results explicitly states that South Sudan 'has held the designation since 2011'. While listed as 'no evidence' in the prompt's summary for claim 8, the evidence provided for claim 7 contains this exact fact.
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Claim 11: “Myanmar, in political turmoil since a 2021 military coup.”
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The evidence provided for claim 7 explicitly mentions that Myanmar 'has remained in political turmoil since the 2021 military coup'.
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