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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nGorton’s order will be in place until he \u200bdecides whether to issue a longer-term pause of the Trump administration’s policy. The judge said he would rule on that \u200bby August 5. USCIS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s signature tax and spending law \u2060that was passed by the Republican-led Congress in July 2025 for the first time imposed fees to apply for asylum and restricted \u200bemployment authorization for people with Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.
That is a designation that lets migrants from countries stricken by war, natural disaster \u200bor other catastrophes live and work in the United States while it is unsafe for them to return to their home countries.
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The Trump administration has sought as part of the Republican president’s hardline immigration agenda to end TPS for people from more than a dozen countries. The U.S. Supreme Court last month allowed it \u200bto do so in the case of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants.
The plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by the liberal legal \u200bgroup Democracy Forward argued that USCIS had unlawfully implemented the new law’s provisions and that its policies needed to be halted, particularly one that would lead \u200cto \u2060thousands of TPS holders from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine potentially losing their ability to work starting on Wednesday.
Among those policies are ones that the plaintiffs say wrongly cut short the time TPS holders would be authorized to work by retroactively applying the new restrictions to people from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine.
Skye Perryman, Democracy Forward’s president and CEO, said in a statement that Gorton’s ruling ensures that thousands of \u200bfamilies will not lose their \u200blivelihoods while courts consider whether \u2060the administration’s policies are legal.
Democratic former President Joe Biden’s administration extended TPS for people from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine in January 2025. TPS remains valid for El Salvador through September 9 and for Sudan and \u200bUkraine through October 19.
The plaintiffs argued the new USCIS policies were invalid because the public never \u200breceived notice and \u2060a chance to comment on them before they were adopted, as required by the Administrative Procedure Act, and applied the 2025 law’s TPS work authorization provisions retroactively without statutory authorization.
Gorton on Tuesday declined to block USCIS from collecting the fee for now, but said the agency cannot strip people \u2060who fail \u200bto pay it of work permits or impose other penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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