US judges allow Trump to end protections for migrants from South Sudan, Myanmar

Two federal judges on Friday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had allowed thousands of people from South Sudan and Myanmar to live and work in the United States.



Judges in Boston and Chicago rejected last-ditch efforts by immigrant-rights advocates to maintain the Temporary Protected Status designations for the two countries after the U.S. Supreme Court in June allowed the administration to end similar protections for thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.



The Supreme Court's ruling, powered by its 6-3 conservative majority, curtailed the ability of lower-court judges to review the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's efforts under Trump to end TPS for about a dozen countries.