Federal judge blocks Trump admin's revocation of temporary protected status for 530,000 immigrants

A Boston federal judge has said that the Trump administration is not permitted to suspend the temporary protected status for some 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans who are in the United States under that program. Judge Indira Talwani said that each case must be individually assessed and that a blanket revocation is not possible.

Judge Indira Talwani granted the emergency relief, saying that the order of the Termination of Parole Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans was stayed "insofar as it revoked, without case-by-case review, the previously granted parole and work authorization issued to noncitizens paroled into the United States pursuant to parole programs for noncitizens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela prior to the noncitizen's originally stated parole date."

In a ruling for the temporary block, the Obama-appointed judge said that those who are currently in the US on this program would "be forced to choose between two injurious options: continue following the law and leave the country on their own, or await removal proceedings."

The ruling mentions plaintiffs who are currently working in the US in order to send money back to their home countries. "Here," reads the case on Ana Doe, "she has been working for a company that supplies personal protective equipment. She uses her salary here to provide for her family and for her mother who lives in Nicaragua." Some of those listed in the ruling have stated that they fear their home government and that they would face persecution should they return.

Still others speak of financial hardships, the need to pay back those who sponsored their trips to the US, and the difficulty of finding work in their home nations. Those who are from Haiti fear returning home due to the instability and lawlessness in the gang-run country.

The program had been implemented by the Biden administration and, under his watch, over 500,000 people from those four nations alone came to the US seeking shelter, food and work, much of which was supplied by the Biden administration. Trump determined to end it and the benefits of federal aid that went along with it. 

The status was extended to people from other nations as well, including Afghanistan. Over 1 million people were added to this program in total during Biden's four years in office. 

The program allowed people to stay for up to two years, but over the years, that status has repeatedly been extended. In September, then-Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the status of some 100,000 Haitians in the US had been extended amid turmoil in that country.

The House Judiciary Committee has said that the Biden administration "abused" the program. "By greatly expanding the scope of populations eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), including through new designations, redesignations, and extensions of prior TPS designations, the Biden-Harris Administration attempted to indefinitely protect from deportation hundreds of thousands of aliens from certain countries," the report read.

The program, the report went on to say, was a "de facto amnesty" that was "vastly expanded" by the Biden administration. 
 

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