US-HAITI-POLITICS-JUSTICE-IMMIGRATION People hold signs at a rally calling on Congress to restore Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians, in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 23, 2026. The US Supreme Court on June 25, 2026, backed a Trump administration move to strip deportation protections from some 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians living in the United States. A federal appeals court on has extended the deadline for TPS to be revoked for Haitians in the US until July 27. (Credit: Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP via Getty Images)
Somalia's Temporary Protected Status holders got their work permits pushed back for roughly the fifth time since mid-July on August 5, when U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services quietly moved the goalposts again, from August 5 to August 10 — today. It looks like the same bureaucratic churn that's defined this case since June. It isn't. Two weeks ago, Somalia was one of five countries still fighting TPS terminations in court. As of this week, it's down to two, and the other one — Ethiopia — is barely holding on.
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