Posted on 10/03/2018 7:25:27 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday evening, temporarily blocking the Trump administration from ending the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for over 300,000 immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras and Sudan.
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ruled that the program's termination would result in "irreparable harm and great hardship" for its beneficiaries and their families. The TPS program protects migrants from countries suffering from crises such as health epidemics, war or natural disasters.
Chen wrote the administration must maintain TPS from those four countries as a lawsuit challenging the program's termination goes on, CNN reported.
BREAKING: US district court issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump Admin’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, Salvadorans , Hondurans, and Sudanese. @ACLU @ACLU_NorCal @ACLUSoCal
— Cecillia Wang (@WangCecillia) October 4, 2018 Over 1,000 TPS recipients from Sudan were set to lose their protections on Nov. 2, while others were going to lose their status next year.
Chen during hearings last week agreed that the Trump administration's decision to end the program could reflect a racial bias against migrants from non-white nations, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Immigrants from 10 nations currently benefit from TPS, including 263,000 Salvadorans, 5,300 Nicaraguans, 46,000 Haitians and 1,000 Sudanese, the Chronicle reported. Trump since taking office has announced plans to terminate protected status for most of those who currently have it.
TPS beneficiaries have been protesting the administration's plans to end the program for months, with dozens of truck drivers in Los Angeles stopping traffic last week to demonstrate against the cancellation.
Truck drivers in Los Angeles stopped traffic to protest the cancellation of Temporary Protected Status. Around 60 peaceful protesters were arrested. The cancellation of TPS could lead to the deportation of over 300,000 people – the majority from El Salvador, Haiti, and Honduras.
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Everyone in every country outside the US qualifies under some sort of refugee nonsense in our current rule set.
Stop it all. End it all. And if Chen doesn’t like it, send him back too.
They have kept extending the TPS status. It needs to end. How many decades must go by before these people are sent home? They were supposed to be here temporarily.
President Trump should appeal, but also tell this judge to go to Hell. Too many federal judges think of themselves as President, Congress, the States, and the People all rolled into one.
I suppose this judge doesn’t understand the meaning of “temporary”.
Judge is apparently not a strict constructionist. Or he's too lazy to look up "temporary" in Webster's.
is this supposed to keep the left from rioting after K is confirmed?
won’t work
It is not the job of the courts to dictate to the executive and legislative branches. Co-equal means “mind your own business”.
Trump should send this Judge to Central America to get that place straightened out.
The only court that should have the power to order a President to do,or not to do,something is SCOTUS.
Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of California who was nominated by Barack Obama.
Are there any white countries in the program?
judges and Mueller see themselves as one step above God.
Humble servants of the Constitutional protection of citizens’ God given rights they ain’t.
“Temporary” is the new permanent..
These Judges have never seen the monty python dead parrot sketch have they
“as a lawsuit challenging the program’s termination goes on”
Lawyers running and ruining the country. Put them on the CWII target list.
OMW! I’m LOL because as soon as I saw this TPS crap, I immediately thought of Office Space. Ya just can’t make this stuff up! No way! LOL! Thanks for the funny. Now, ‘bout that damn printer...!
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