A US federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plan to end deportation protections for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants. These migrants live and work legally in the US under Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The protection was set to expire, but Judge Ana Reyes denied the Department of Homeland Security's move to end it one day before the deadline. She said Secretary Kristi Noem "preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely," according to Reyes. The administration claimed TPS encourages illegal immigration and is often abused. TPS prevents deporting people to unsafe countries due to disasters or war. Judge Reyes wrote an 83-page ruling refusing to dismiss the lawsuit filed by five Haitian TPS holders. She quoted harsh words by Noem and said, "They are not, it emerges, 'killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.'" Haiti got TPS after a 2010 earthquake. The status was extended many times, last under President Biden in 2021. The Trump administration argued TPS had become like permanent residency and was not what Congress intended. They have also sought to end TPS for migrants from Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Honduras, Myanmar, Nepal, South Sudan, Syria, and Venezuela. Meanwhile, the administration will end deportation protections for about 2,500 Somalis starting March 17. They will lose work permits and legal status, making them eligible for deportation.