A federal judge just blocked the actions of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to end Temporary Protected Status for well over a quarter of a million Haitians.
Biden Judge Ana Reyes claims Noem violated TPS procedures or something.
Here’s more from Reuters:
A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from revoking legal protections for more than 350,000 Haitians in the U.S., preventing their potential deportation to a country that has been ravaged by gang violence.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., halted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s effort to terminate Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status. The move would have taken effect on Wednesday despite spiraling violence there that has displaced more than 1.4 million people.
Reyes, who was appointed by Democratic former President Joe Biden, issued the ruling in a class-action lawsuit brought by Haitians seeking to stop the administration from exposing them to deportation by ending their legal status.
Reyes said in the ruling that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem likely violated the procedures required to terminate the protected status of Haitian immigrants in the U.S. as well as the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law.
“Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely,” Reyes wrote.
This will most certainly be appealed and will almost certainly be overturned, either at the Appellate court or the Supreme Court. It’s absolutely ridiculous that one administration can great TPS but another cannot end it.