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.

Temporary Protected Status designations for an estimated 7,000 from Nepal was scheduled to end Aug. 5. And protections allowing 51,000 Hondurans and nearly 3,000 Nicaraguans to reside and work

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.