A US federal judge has cleared the way for the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status (TPS) — a humanitarian programme shielding migrants from deportation due to crises in their home countries — for roughly 5,000 Ethiopians living in the United States. The ruling by District Judge Brian Murphy lifts a stay that had blocked the move, completing what officials described as the final TPS termination in the administration's sweeping immigration crackdown. Advocates and Ethiopian plaintiffs have warned the decision endangers lives, citing renewed armed conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region and ongoing insurgencies elsewhere in the country, while a legal challenge alleging the cancellation was driven by racial or national-origin bias is still permitted to proceed.