On February 9, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a stay pending appeal allowing the Trump administration to move forward with plans to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for an estimated 60,000 migrants in the United States, including 50,000 Hondurans, 7,000 Nepalis, and 3,000 Nicaraguans.
The court said it concluded that “the government is likely to succeed on the merits of its appeal either by showing that the district court lacked jurisdiction or by prevailing on plaintiffs’ arbitrary-and-capricious [Administrative Procedure Act] challenge.”
