US appeals court lets Trump continue ending deportation protections

Migrants from Nicaragua, Ecuador and other nationalities are pictured at a door on the border wall waiting to be picked up by the United States Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, U.S., January 4, 2023. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

Feb 9 (Reuters) - A ‌U.S. appeals court in California on Monday temporarily lifted a federal judge's order ‌that had blocked the Trump administration from ending deportation protections for nearly ‌89,000 migrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua.

The 9th U.S. Court of Appeals said the government could likely prove there were "legitimate" reasons to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from those countries and paused a California ‍federal judge's ruling against the administration for the duration ‍of the appeal.