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US judge says government can revoke deportation protections for Ethiopians

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 772 words · By Al Jazeera Staff
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US judge says government can revoke deportation protections for Ethiopians Ruling permits Trump administration to nix Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopians despite concerns over conditions in their home country.

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What happened

US judge says government can revoke deportation protections for Ethiopians Ruling permits Trump administration to nix Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopians despite concerns over conditions in their home country.

Why it matters

A United States federal judge has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump can revoke legal protections that shielded more than 5,000 Ethiopians from deportation.

Common ground

On Tuesday, US District Judge Brian Murphy gave the go-ahead for the termination of the group’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a legal category that allows foreign nationals in the US to stay and apply for work authorisation, on the basis that conditions…

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open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/18/us-judge-says-government-can-revoke-dep…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “They represented 17 countries where the US government had deemed conditions unsafe or unstable.”
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While the general nature of TPS is confirmed, the specific number of '17 countries' as of March is not explicitly corroborated by multiple independent sources in the provided evidence.
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web search NEUTRAL — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani criticized the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Mamdani urged President Donald Trump to restore protections. The mayor assured those impacted by the r…
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/mamdani-responds-following-termi…
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web search NEUTRAL — What is Temporary Protected Status (TPS)? TPS is provided to citizens of certain countries experiencing significant issues that make it unsafe for them to return to their country of origin.
https://woub.org/2026/02/03/temporary-protected-status-quest…
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web search NEUTRAL — "TPS recipient terminations by country and court rulings 2026".DHS set Somalia’s TPS to terminate March 17, 2026; one legal account estimated approximately 1,100 current TPS beneficiaries would be imp…
https://factually.co/fact-checks/justice/tps-terminations-af…
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Claim 2: “The US State Department currently lists the country under a level-three travel advisory on its four-point scale, advising citizens not to travel there due to “unrest, crime, kidnapping, terrorism [and] landmines”.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 3: “Ethiopians living in the US were first granted TPS under the administration of former President Joe Biden in 2022 over concerns about violent conflict and humanitarian issues in Ethiopia.”
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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm the specific date or administration that first granted TPS to Ethiopians in 2022.
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Claim 4: “Since returning to office for a second term in 2025, Trump has sought to end TPS protections for a range of nationalities.”
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Web search results and Wikipedia confirm Donald Trump is the 47th president, returned to office in 2025, and has sought to end TPS for multiple nationalities.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On September 23, 2025, United States President Donald Trump delivered a speech during the general debate of the eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly. He spoke for 57 minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Donald_Trump_speech_at_th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — There has been significant academic and political debate about whether Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, can be considered a fascist according to consensus definitions of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_fascism
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — $Trump (stylized in all caps) is a meme coin cryptocurrency associated with United States president Donald Trump, hosted on the Solana blockchain. One billion coins were created; 800 million remain ow…
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Claim 5: ““Temporary Protected Status is just that — TEMPORARY,” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote on Tuesday, in reaction to the latest ruling.”
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No evidence was found in the search results to confirm the specific quote attributed to Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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Claim 6: “The Pew Research Center estimates that the TPS revocations will affect at least one million people who were participating in the programme as of this year.”
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EL PAÍS reports that the Pew Research Center estimates roughly one million of the 1.3 million TPS beneficiaries have lost protection.
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web search NEUTRAL — Pew Research Center estimates that roughly one million of the 1.3 million TPS beneficiaries who existed in March 2025 have lost protection. At the start of September 2026, only Lebanon, Sudan, and Ukr…
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-09/end-of-salvadoran-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Pew Research Center regularly conducts public opinion surveys in countries outside the United States as part of its ongoing exploration of attitudes, values and behaviors around the globe.
https://www.pewresearch.org/
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web search NEUTRAL — Data from the Pew Research Center reported that nearly 1.2 million noncitizen immigrants living in the United States were either receiving or eligible for TPS in March 2024, and these numbers have lik…
https://www.faegredrinker.com/en/insights/publications/2025/…
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Claim 7: “Roughly 1.29 million people were living in the US under the protection of the TPS system as of March.”
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Web search results from EL PAÍS and Pew Research Center data mention approximately 1.3 million (or 1.2 million) TPS beneficiaries as of March 2025/2024.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AN/FPS-117 is an L-band active electronically scanned array (AESA) 3-dimensional air search radar first produced by GE Aerospace in 1980 and now part of Lockheed Martin. The system offers instrume…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FPS-117
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In March 2025, the United States launched a large campaign of air and naval strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. Codenamed Operation Rough Rider, it was the first large-scale US military operation…
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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 8: ““Judge Brian Murphy just lifted the stay of Ethiopia TPS termination,” Department of Homeland Security General Counsel James Percival wrote in a social media post.”
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Wikipedia confirms James H. Percival has served as General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security since December 2025. While the specific social media post text isn't quoted in the provided snippets, his role and the context of the ruling are verified.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — James Hamilton (Jimmy) Percival is an American lawyer and public servant. Since December 2025 he has served as General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Percival
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mullin v. Doe, consolidated with Trump v. Miot, 609 U.S. ___ (2026), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the temporary protected status (TPS) statute bars judicial revie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullin_v._Doe
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Claim 9: “The decision follows a 6-3 ruling from the US Supreme Court in June that limited the ability of courts to review Homeland Security’s efforts to terminate TPS protections.”
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Wikipedia explicitly mentions the case 'Mullin v. Doe' (2026) where the Supreme Court held that the TPS statute bars judicial review of non-constitutional claims challenging the termination of TPS.
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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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_St…
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Claim 10: “The Department of Homeland Security first announced in December that it would end TPS protections for Ethiopians”
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Claim 11: “A United States federal judge has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump can revoke legal protections that shielded more than 5,000 Ethiopians from deportation.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that US District Judge Brian Murphy ruled the Trump administration can revoke TPS protections for approximately 5,000 Ethiopians.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brian Edward Murphy (born 1979) is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_E._Murphy
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brian Murphy may refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Murphy
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a timeline of the second presidency of Donald Trump during the first quarter of 2026, from January 1, 2026, to March 31, 2026. To navigate between quarters, see timeline of the Donald…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_second_Trump_p…
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Claim 12: “The Trump administration, however, has sought to terminate TPS protections for at least 13 of those nationalities, including people from Venezuela, Nicaragua, South Sudan and Somalia.”
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Multiple sources confirm the Trump administration targeted TPS for 13 nationalities, specifically naming Venezuela, Nicaragua, South Sudan, and Somalia.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Trump administration has moved to end TPS protections for nationals of at least 13 countries, including Ethiopia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, South Sudan and Somalia.
https://allafrica.com/stories/202608200132.html
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web search NEUTRAL — 18 effectively ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the last of 13 nationalities that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) targeted during President Donald Trump’s second term.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/temporary-protected-status-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The first Trump administration had attempted to terminate TPS protections for El Salvador (along with Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan), but legal challenges kept the protections in place;…
https://www.fwd.us/news/temporary-protected-status-tps-termi…
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.