Judge: The migrants said to “at the delete for their race” in the TPS order of Noem

A federal judge in California delayed the decision of the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) to end the protections of immigrants from three countries, a decision which adds to the legal obstacles for the Trump administration while he pushes to carry out his expulsion program.

Judge Trina Thompson said the dismissals of the DHS secretary Kristi Noem, on the protected temporary status, also known as TPS, for Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal immigrants were probably “predetermined decisions” which violated the law on administrative procedure and were motivated by the racial animus.

“The freedom to live without fear, the opportunity of freedom and the American dream. It is that all the complainants are looking for,” wrote Thompson, a man named Biden. “Instead, they are invited to atone for their race, to leave because of their names and to purify their blood. The court does not agree.”

Thompson later added: “Color is neither a poison nor a crime.”

The DHS ends the temporary protected status for approximately 76k Hondurian migrants and Nicaraguans

The interior security secretary, Kristi Noem, on the left, and the border of the White House, Tsar Tom Homan, speaks with journalists in the White House, Wednesday January 29, 2025 in Washington. ((AP photo / Alex Brandon)))

The trial was brought by a group representing TPS holders, some of whom have lived in the country for more than two decades.

Lawyers have written in court documents in the name of immigrants that they were “workers, health workers, artists and guards” who “counted on TP to provide the most fundamental forms of human security – a stable place to live and a chance to work to live during a period of severe crisis in their country of origin.”

They argued that Noem refusing to extend their TPS status was, by law, supposed to be reached on the basis of an individualized analysis of each country. The judge noted that Noem had probably not conditioned the termination of the TPS on the specific factors to the countries of origin of immigrants.

They also declared that Noem had given immigrants a period of historically short notice of 60 days before losing their status as TPS. And she and other Trump administration officials have normalized using “Racist invective” to explain their TPS decisions, lawyers said.

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President Donald Trump speaks with internal security secretary Kristi Noem when they visit a migrant detention center, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz”, located on the Dade-Collier training and transitional airport site in Ochopee, Florida, July 1, 2025. (Photo of Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)

Lawyers have cited dozens of examples of Trump or Noem describing migrants as members of MS-13 gangs, murderers, terrorists and people who have it in their “genes” to commit a crime. They stressed the moment of Trump’s viral debate in which he said that Haitian immigrants ate Ohioan pets.

The TPS program gives the DHS the power to authorize immigrants who could otherwise have no legal status to temporarily reside in the United States due to extraordinary circumstances in their country of origin, such as wars or natural disasters.

The complainants argued that around 61,000 people would lose their TPS following Noem’s decision, which would end the legal status and the work authorizations of immigrants and would make them eligible for deportation.

The Trump administration argued that the status governing the TPS gives the secretaries of the DHS only discretionary on the designations of the TPS and that Noem should be authorized to end the status using the same authority as the secretaries used to grant it.

Internal security secretary Kristi Noem is holding a press conference concerning recent demonstrations in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP photo / Etienne Laurent)

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In May, the Supreme Court reassured itself with the Trump administration in an emergency order linked to a case involving TP for the Venezuelans. The order temporarily interrupted an order from the lower court, paving the way to Noem to end the TP for around 350,000 immigrants.

Thompson’s decision will remain in place until the least November, when the next hearing is planned. DHS told Fox News Digital that he planned to appeal the decision.