At 2 a.m. Tuesday morning, nursing student Jhony Silva folded clothes to quiet his anxiety.

In a few hours, Silva’s attorneys would challenge the Department of Homeland Security’s July decision that terminated Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua who had fled to the United States to escape natural disasters.

Silva is among more than 60,000 people whose lives hang in the balance. Silva arrived in the United States from Honduras at the age of 3, after Hurricane Mitch devastated Central America in 1998. He remembers little of his home country…