The US District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that the Trump administration must continue to provide legal protection for Venezuelan and Haitian migrants. Over 1 million migrants from the two countries faced deportation under a plan from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

At issue is a DHS plan to terminate temporary protected status (TPS) as provided by 8 U.S. Code § 1254a . Immigrants from designated countries are granted safe haven in the US when their home countries are too dangerous, due to armed conflict or natural disaster. For example, Haiti was designated for TPS in 2010 after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of people, and left more than 1 million homeless.

Conditions in Venezuela and Haiti are dang

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