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What you need to know: Judge lets DHS end Temporary Protected Status for more than 5,000 EthiopiansJudge allows plaintiffs to continue pursuing claim DHS acted with racial or national origin animusOther judges have recently let TPS designation end for South Sudan, Somalia and Myanmar A federal judge allowed US President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday to end legal protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live and work in the United States.

US District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston lifted the last judicial block on the US Department of Homeland Security terminating the Temporary Protected Status designation for individual countries after the US Supreme Court ​allowed the administration in June to end similar protections for thousands of ​people from Haiti and Syria.

After the Supreme Court ruled, Murphy issued a new order that continued to temporarily block the end of the Ethiopians' TPS while he considered whether to continue to halt DHS' action on grounds that the Supreme Court's ruling did not address.