Federal Judge Blocks Order Ending Deportation Protections for Somalis A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending deportation protections for more than a thousand Somalis living in the United States, largely because lawyers for the Trump administration had been unprepared to defend it in court. In a 4-page order, Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts wrote that the government had not filed a brief or even assigned a lawyer to represent the government in the lawsuit seeking to block the order, which had been filed on Monday. Judge Burroughs, appointed by President Barack Obama, stayed the order indefinitely, writing that it would give the federal government time to prepare and brief the court on the facts of the case. https://archive.ph/PQROj https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/somalis-tps-deportations-trump.html They didn't file a brief The didn't provide the required certified record They hadn't even assigned a lawyer to the case. The case involved a mere 2741 Somalis.
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