“I’m too scared to even walk to the mailbox,” one Somali immigrant said.

After months of legal back-and-forth, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts lifted the administrative stay blocking the termination of Somalia’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation on August 14. The move puts thousands of Somalis in the U.S. at risk of immediate detention, deportation, loss of work authorization, and family separation. The initial termination was announced…

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