A U.S. appeals court has blocked for now a bid by President Donald Trump's administration to strip temporary protected status from thousands of Afghans in the United States, court documents showed, allowing them more time to argue the case.

A short, unsigned order by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia blocked the Trump administration’s move to terminate deportation protections until next week.

An appeals court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from revoking temporary protected status for thousands of people from Afghanistan living in the United States. The Trump administration was planning to revoke Afghans’ temporary protected status as part of a broader push to revoke the status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants living legally in the