2026-04-08T21:14:11.256Z / 路透社
作者：内特·雷蒙德
2026年4月8日 美国东部时间晚9:14 更新，距发稿已过去2小时
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2025年9月17日，美国马萨诸塞州波士顿联邦法院，新任美国地区法官布莱恩·墨菲在就职仪式上发言。路透社/布莱恩·斯奈德 购买授权许可，打开新标签页
- 摘要
- 法官裁定国土安全部无视法律，终止埃塞俄比亚人临时保护身份的行为属借口
- 原告方指控政府的终止理由是出于对非白人移民的敌意
- 美国最高法院将于4月29日审理针对海地人和叙利亚人的更广泛临时保护身份案件
路透社波士顿4月8日电——一名联邦法官周三叫停了美国总统唐纳德·特朗普政府终止超过5000名埃塞俄比亚人合法居留保护的举措，这些保护措施允许他们在美国生活和工作。
美国地区法官布莱恩·墨菲在波士顿作出的这一裁决，是美国国土安全部为推进特朗普的强硬移民议程而终止13个国家临时保护身份计划遭遇的最新法律挫败。
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根据联邦法律，临时保护身份适用于其祖国遭遇自然灾害、武装冲突或其他极端事件的人员。该身份可为符合条件的移民提供工作许可和免于被驱逐的临时保护。
特朗普行政令预示裁决早有定论：法官
由民主党前总统乔·拜登任命的墨菲法官称，考虑到特朗普2025年1月重返白宫后签署的一项行政令——该命令指示国土安全部确保此类身份认定“在范围上得到适当限制”——埃塞俄比亚的临时保护身份被终止并不令人意外。
法官表示，特朗普的这项指令“预示着身份认定、延期和终止的决定将早已注定，而非基于对所在国情况的有意义审查”。
他得出结论认为，国土安全部无视了国会为规范临时保护身份制定的法定程序，并为终止埃塞俄比亚民众的保护身份提供了“借口性”理由，而埃塞俄比亚境内“武装冲突和自然灾害仍在制造危险环境”。
“本案的核心——乃至我们的宪政体系的核心——是总统的意志不能凌驾于国会之上这一原则，”墨菲写道。“总统的心血来潮不能也无法取代机构的法定义务。”
国土安全部未立即回应置评请求。
墨菲作出裁决之际，美国最高法院将于4月29日就政府能否撤销美国境内超过35万名海地人和约6100名叙利亚人的此类临时法律保护身份进行听证。
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墨菲于1月30日发布了临时禁令，阻止原定2月13日终止的埃塞俄比亚人居留保护生效，以便双方有时间提交案件供其审理。
拜登政府于2022年首次为已在美国境内的埃塞俄比亚人授予该身份，理由是需要保护这个非洲国家的公民免受武装冲突和人道主义苦难。该身份于2024年4月再次延期。
前国土安全部长克里斯蒂·诺姆领导下的国土安全部在去年12月宣布将终止埃塞俄比亚的临时保护身份，理由是这个非洲国家的局势已不再对安全回国的民众构成严重威胁。
特朗普政府时期，该部门多次称临时保护身份“绝非永久居留的通行证”。
三名埃塞俄比亚国民和非洲社区合作组织提起诉讼，辩称政府无视埃塞俄比亚多地武装冲突持续、危险环境依然存在的事实。
原告方辩称，政府为终止临时保护身份所陈述的理由只是借口，而非真正动机，他们称真正动机是基于对非白人移民的违宪敌意。埃塞俄比亚人口以黑人为主。
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Trump administration cannot nix legal status of 5,000 Ethiopians, US judge rules
2026-04-08T21:14:11.256Z / Reuters
By Nate Raymond
April 8, 2026 9:14 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
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- Summary
- Judge rules DHS disregarded law, ending Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopians was pretextual
- Plaintiffs allege administration’s rationale was motivated by animus against non-white immigrants
- Supreme Court to hear broader TPS case for Haitians and Syrians on April 29
BOSTON, April 8 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday halted a move by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to end legal protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live and work in the United States.
The ruling, opens new tab by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston marked the latest legal setback for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to terminate the Temporary Protected Status designation for 13 countries in furtherance of Trump’s hardline immigration agenda.
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TPS under federal law is available to people whose home countries have experienced natural disasters, armed conflicts or other extraordinary events. It provides eligible migrants with work authorization and temporary protection from deportation.
TRUMP ORDER SIGNALS PREORDAINED DECISIONS: JUDGE
Murphy, who was appointed by Democratic former President Joe Biden, called the termination of TPS for Ethiopia unsurprising in light of an executive order Trump signed upon returning to office in January 2025 that directed DHS to ensure such designations were “appropriately limited in scope.”
The judge said that directive from Trump “signals that the outcome of designation, extension, and termination decisions will be preordained, rather than based on a meaningful review of in-country conditions.”
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He concluded that DHS disregarded the statutory procedures Congress enacted that govern TPS and provided a “pretextual” rationale for ending protections granted to people from Ethiopia, where “armed conflict and natural disasters continue to create dangerous conditions.”
“Fundamental to this case—and indeed to our constitutional system—is the principle that the will of the President does not supersede that of Congress,” Murphy wrote. “Presidential whims do not and cannot supplant agencies’ statutory obligations.”
DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Murphy ruled as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on April 29 over whether the administration can revoke such temporary legal protections for more than 350,000 Haitians and about 6,100 Syrians living in the U.S.
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Murphy issued a temporary order on January 30, preventing the protections granted to Ethiopians from ending on February 13 as scheduled, to allow the parties time for him to hear the case.
The Biden administration first granted Ethiopians already in the United States that status beginning in 2022, citing the need to protect the African nation’s citizens from armed conflict and humanitarian suffering. The status was extended again in April 2024.
DHS under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced in December it would end TPS for Ethiopia on the grounds that conditions in the African nation no longer posed a serious threat to people returning safely.
The department has repeatedly under Trump said TPS was “never meant to be a ticket to permanent residency.”
Three Ethiopian nationals and the group African Communities Together sued, arguing the administration ignored how dangerous conditions persist in Ethiopia, where armed conflict continues in multiple regions.
The plaintiffs argued the administration’s stated rationale for its action was a pretext and not its true motivation for ending TPS, which they said was based on an unconstitutional animus against non-white immigrants. Ethiopia’s population is predominantly Black.
Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi, Nia Williams, Rod Nickel
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