Judge blocks Trump from revoking protected status for Haitians in controversial ruling
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A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitians in the United States this week, in an opinion that drew fierce criticism from conservative legal experts.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, issued a lengthy and scathing ruling late on Monday blocking the end of TPS for Haitians, accusing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of not properly following procedure in terminating the special status, which was set to expire on Tuesday. Reyes also spent much of her opinion ripping the Trump administration’s decision to end TPS for Haitians, accusing it of being inhumane and racist.
“The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight,” Reyes wrote in her ruling. “She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured.”
“This approach is many things — in the public interest is not one of them,” Reyes added.
The federal statute creating TPS says courts have no jurisdiction to review the DHS secretary’s determination to extend the temporary status to immigrants from any country “with respect to the designation, or termination or extension of a designation, of a foreign state.”
But Reyes said the federal law establishing TPS does not strip her of jurisdiction to rule in the case, because the Haitians who sued the federal government challenged “how the Secretary went about making her determination,” rather than the determination itself.
Reyes said the Trump administration lacked evidence that conditions in Haiti had improved, which would have allowed it to end the TPS designation for the country.
“Taken together, the record strongly suggests that Secretary Noem’s decision to terminate Haiti’s TPS designation was motivated, at least in part, by racial animus. The mismatch between what the Secretary said in the Termination and what the evidence shows confirms that the termination of Haiti’s TPS designation was not the product of reasoned decision-making, but of a preordained outcome justified by pretextual reasons,” Reyes said.
Haiti was originally given a TPS …
Who benefits from this decision?
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitians in the United States this week, in an opinion that drew fierce criticism from conservative legal experts.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, issued a lengthy and scathing ruling late on Monday blocking the end of TPS for Haitians, accusing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of not properly following procedure in terminating the special status, which was set to expire on Tuesday. Reyes also spent much of her opinion ripping the Trump administration’s decision to end TPS for Haitians, accusing it of being inhumane and racist.
“The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight,” Reyes wrote in her ruling. “She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured.”
“This approach is many things — in the public interest is not one of them,” Reyes added.
The federal statute creating TPS says courts have no jurisdiction to review the DHS secretary’s determination to extend the temporary status to immigrants from any country “with respect to the designation, or termination or extension of a designation, of a foreign state.”
But Reyes said the federal law establishing TPS does not strip her of jurisdiction to rule in the case, because the Haitians who sued the federal government challenged “how the Secretary went about making her determination,” rather than the determination itself.
Reyes said the Trump administration lacked evidence that conditions in Haiti had improved, which would have allowed it to end the TPS designation for the country.
“Taken together, the record strongly suggests that Secretary Noem’s decision to terminate Haiti’s TPS designation was motivated, at least in part, by racial animus. The mismatch between what the Secretary said in the Termination and what the evidence shows confirms that the termination of Haiti’s TPS designation was not the product of reasoned decision-making, but of a preordained outcome justified by pretextual reasons,” Reyes said.
Haiti was originally given a TPS …
Judge blocks Trump from revoking protected status for Haitians in controversial ruling
Who benefits from this decision?
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitians in the United States this week, in an opinion that drew fierce criticism from conservative legal experts.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, issued a lengthy and scathing ruling late on Monday blocking the end of TPS for Haitians, accusing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of not properly following procedure in terminating the special status, which was set to expire on Tuesday. Reyes also spent much of her opinion ripping the Trump administration’s decision to end TPS for Haitians, accusing it of being inhumane and racist.
“The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight,” Reyes wrote in her ruling. “She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured.”
“This approach is many things — in the public interest is not one of them,” Reyes added.
The federal statute creating TPS says courts have no jurisdiction to review the DHS secretary’s determination to extend the temporary status to immigrants from any country “with respect to the designation, or termination or extension of a designation, of a foreign state.”
But Reyes said the federal law establishing TPS does not strip her of jurisdiction to rule in the case, because the Haitians who sued the federal government challenged “how the Secretary went about making her determination,” rather than the determination itself.
Reyes said the Trump administration lacked evidence that conditions in Haiti had improved, which would have allowed it to end the TPS designation for the country.
“Taken together, the record strongly suggests that Secretary Noem’s decision to terminate Haiti’s TPS designation was motivated, at least in part, by racial animus. The mismatch between what the Secretary said in the Termination and what the evidence shows confirms that the termination of Haiti’s TPS designation was not the product of reasoned decision-making, but of a preordained outcome justified by pretextual reasons,” Reyes said.
Haiti was originally given a TPS …
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