A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the Trump administration an emergency stay that overturns a lower-court order preserving Temporary Protected Status for migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal. The unsigned order, issued late Wednesday, allows the Department of Homeland Security to proceed with terminating the program while litigation continues. The decision immediately clears the way for removal proceedings against roughly 7,000 Nepali nationals whose TPS expired on Aug. 5. Protections for an estimated 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are now set to lapse on Sept. 8, ending their work permits and exposing them to deportation unless Congress or the courts intervene. Wednesday’s ruling reverses U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson’s July 31 injunction, which had kept the program in place after finding the administration was likely motivated by unlawful bias. The appellate panel—Judges Michael Hawkins, Consuelo Callahan and Eric Miller—did not provide a written rationale but told the parties to propose a new briefing schedule; Thompson is free to continue managing the underlying case, with the next hearing slated for Nov. 18. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who announced the terminations earlier this year, said the decision helps restore “integrity” to an immigration program she argues had become a de facto asylum system. Immigrant-rights groups, led by the National TPS Alliance and UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy, called the stay “a power grab” and warned it could uproot families that have lived legally in the United States for decades. The appellate action is the latest in a series of moves by the Trump administration to wind down TPS designations granted after natural disasters and conflicts abroad. Similar terminations affecting Venezuelan, Haitian and Ukrainian nationals remain the subject of separate lawsuits.