A federal judge ruled the Trump administration could not cut short the protection for migrants from Haiti, which has been under a state of emergency since March 2024.

A federal judge in Brooklyn has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end temporary protected status for Haitian migrants ahead of schedule, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security violated the law in its rush to strip deportation protections and work permits from over half a million people.

U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan in New York ruled that moving up the expiration of the temporary protected status by at least five months for Haitians, some of whom have lived in the U.S. for more than a decade,