Posted on 09/05/2025 3:31:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco for the plaintiffs means 600,000 Venezuelans whose temporary protections expired in April or whose protections were about to expire Sept. 10 have status to stay and work in the United States. It also keeps protections for about 500,000 Haitians.
Chen scolded Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for revoking protections for Venezuelans and Haitians that the judge said would send them “back to conditions that are so dangerous that even the State Department advises against travel to their home countries.”
He said Noem’s actions were arbitrary and capricious, and she exceeded her authority in ending protections that were extended by the Biden administration.
Presidential administrations have executed the law for 35 years based on the best available information and in consultation with other agencies, “a process that involves careful study and analysis. Until now,” Chen wrote.
Plaintiffs and their attorneys welcomed the news Friday, although it’s unclear if it would help people who have already been deported.
“In recent months, people have suffered unspeakable harm — including deportation and family separation — due to the Supreme Court greenlighting Secretary Noem’s discriminatory and harmful agenda,” said Emi Maclean, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Foundation of Northern California. “That must end now.”
A DHS spokesperson said in an email that the program has been “abused, exploited, and politicized as a de facto amnesty program” and that “unelected activist judges” cannot stop the American people’s desire for a secure country.
“While this order delays justice, Secretary Noem will use every legal option...
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from wikipedia:
Edward Milton Chen (born January 20, 1953) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He was appointed in 2011 by President Barack Obama. He previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court from 2001 to 2011.
Early life and education
Born and raised in Oakland, California,[1] Chen earned a bachelor’s degree in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley and a Juris Doctor from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1979.[2]
Career
After graduating law school, Chen clerked for Judge Charles Byron Renfrew of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from June 1979 to April 1980 and Judge James R. Browning of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from June 1981 to June 1982.[2][3]
From 1982 until 1985, Chen served as an associate at the San Francisco law firm of Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer.[2] In September 1985, Chen became a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, specializing in language discrimination cases.[4] He held that post until April 2001, when the judges on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California named Chen to an eight-year term as a United States magistrate judge.[2]
Yesterday the anti-Trump judge was named Amir Ali.
Today the anti-Trump judge is named Edward Chen.....CHEN!
The list of judges who should reasonably be subject to arrest and prosecution grows every week.
I found the problem, Jim.
“Born and raised in Oakland, California,[1] Chen earned a bachelor’s degree in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley and a Juris Doctor from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1979.””
Obunghole judge.
Judge Chen doesn’t sound like a name of an American judge.
The judge assumes there is no other option for them and therefore the US must continue to pay for them to live here. (Some of them may be contributing, but the government that allowed them in wanted to keep them dependent by giving them stuff so that if they got jobs, they’d probably lose the freebies. I’ve known people who gave up on earning more just to keep the lower free amount.) But the point is they can probably go to Canada or even Mexico. There probably won’t be as much free stuff, but there is a world of options to explore that don’t include the US taxpayer.
Race doesn’t matter
Remember
LOL!
Eddie Chen of the New Supreme Court [the Northern District of California], a senior moment “judge” and stooge appointed by Benedict Obama.
Early stooge life and stooge education
Born and raised in Oakland, California, Eddie the stooge earned a bachelor’s degree in 1975 from the University of California, Berzerkeley and a Juris Doctor from UC Berzerkeley School of Law in 1979.
No wonder Benedict Obama wanted this POS.
Benedict Obama and AutoPen Joe loved to pollute the bench with foreigners.
Another Friday special by a Demon Rat CHINA PUPPET judge.
Another Friday. Another black-robed tyrant. Color me shocked.
1789 in France coming here soon or we are done.
Too many people still believe foreigners will magically turn into a red blooded patriots as soon as they touch the United State’s soil.
So much for TGIF.
The National Razor.
Didn’t another court already do this?
They’ll drag their third-world BS here with them.
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