A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday found that the Trump administration illegally moved to end temporary deportation protections for tens of thousands of people from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua. The ruling was a blow to the administration’s efforts to limit the reach of a humanitarian program meant to shield migrants from deportation to countries in crisis.
In her ruling, Judge Trina L. Thompson found that the efforts of the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to terminate protections for people from the three countries had been preordained and driven by an intent to target the Temporary Protected Status program, known as T.P.S…