A federal judge in California on Thursday extended temporary protected status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua.

A California judge is extending migrant status protections ended by the Trump administration for more than 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal.

A San Francisco federal judge halted the removal of temporary immigration protections for more than 60,000 migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, issuing a melodramatic ruling that was ripped as outrageous by conservative legal commentators.