Judge stops Kristi Noem from ending temporary protection status for Haitians | US Immigration

Federal judge stopped Trump administrationTemporary deportation protection and work permits are to be provided for approximately 521,000 Haitian migrants before the scheduled expiration date of the program.

Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security revoked Joe Biden’s temporary protection status (TPS) for Haitians until February 3. It asked the program to end on August 3, and last week it delayed the date until September 2.

However, Brooklyn’s U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan said the Secretary of Homeland Security said Kristi Noem There was no follow-up to the instructions and schedule for Congress to reconsider the Haitians’ TPS name.

“Secretary Nome has no legal or inherent authority to partially evacuate a country’s TPS name,” Kogan wrote, making her behavior “illegal”. “The plaintiff is likely (actually, it does) to achieve performance success.”

Kogan also said that the interests of Haitians living and working in the United States “far more than” the potential harm to the U.S. government, which is still free to enforce immigration laws and terminate the TPS status stipulated by Congress.

Donald Trump The crackdown on law and illegal immigration was the central plank of his second White House term.

Cogan was appointed as the bench by Republican George W Bush.

Homeland Security spokesman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that Haiti’s TPS name has been awarded after the country’s 2010 earthquake and was never intended as a “de facto” asylum program.

“This ruling delays justice and tries to surrender to the president’s constitutional vested powers,” she said. “We hope the High Court will defend us.”

Federal courts prevented Trump from ending most TPS enrollment rates in his first term.

A chapter of nine Haitian TPS holders, church associations and international service employees filed a lawsuit on March 14, saying Noem did not conduct the necessary review of Haiti’s current situation before ending TPS as early as possible.

More than one million people, more than half of the children are internally displaced in Haiti, despite the UN-supported security missions that have been launched last year, where gang violence is prevalent.

“While the battle is far from over, it’s an important step,” SEIU Local 32BJ President Manny Pastreich said in a statement.

Noem shared Trump’s tough stance on immigration and turned to TPS with about 350,000 Venezuelans and thousands from Afghanistan and Cameroon.

On May 19, the U.S. Supreme Court lets TPS end Venezuelans, suggesting that other terminations can be allowed.

Norm has the right to grant TPS to people from countries that encounter natural disasters, armed conflicts or other extraordinary events for six to eight months.

The Haitian plaintiffs also claimed that the suspension of their TPS status was partly motivated by racial discrimination, which violated their constitutional rights to equally protect.

Trump falsely stated in a September 2024 debate with Democratic candidate Kamala Harris that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating pets, sparking fear of revenge for Haitians.