Trump Administration Defends Plan to End Haitians’ Special Immigration Status
The Trump administration asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit over its plan to strip tens of thousands of Haitians of the immigrant status they got after an earthquake devastated the island nation in 2010, saying conditions have improved enough for their return.
Demonstrators hold Haitian flags and chant during a protest against President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on Jan. 15, 2018.
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The Trump administration asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit over its plan to strip tens of thousands of Haitians of the immigrant status they got after an earthquake devastated the island nation in 2010, saying conditions have improved enough for their return.
Temporary Protected Status, a humanitarian policy known as TPS, "is not tantamount to a grant of asylum, nor is it a grant of lawful immigration status," the U.S. said Tuesday in a filing in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, where two Haitian-affiliated groups have sued.