The National TPS Alliance says Kristi Noem's actions will threaten the livelihoods of an estimated 60,000 people living lawfully in the United States, some for as long as 26 years.

The decision by the Homeland Security Department to end protections for migrants from those countries goes into effect in about two months.

A group of immigrants with temporary legal status in the U.S. is suing the Trump administration after the Department of Homeland Security terminated the legal protections for some 60,000 people from Nicaragua,