Judge bars U.S. from ending protections for immigrants from four countries

(In this Oct. 3 story, corrects typographical error in the number of beneficiaries from El Salvador in paragraph 6.)WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge in California barred the Trump administration on Wednesday from implementing a plan to end temporary protections for more than 300,000 immigrants in the United States from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan.U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen issued a preliminary injunction in a suit brought by a number of immigrants with temporary pr