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Federal judge issues massive blow to Trump's xenophobic project
TPS Exists at the Pleasure of PowerThe narrow factA federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s move to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopians, keeping refugees in legal limbo while the case continues. That is the surface event. The deeper fact is simpler: the White House tried to strip protection, and only litigation stopped it.Who actually decidedThe decision that matters here was not the judge’s stay. It was the administration’s attempt to end TPS in the first place. That is where institutional power sits: in the executive branch’s ability to turn refuge…
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