Trump Immigration Agenda Suffers New Defeat With Ruling on Haitians’ Status
- The White House “exerted significant influence,” judge finds
- Court in New York is second to shield TPS, after San Francisco
Demonstrators protest Trump’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people from Sudan, El Salvador, Haiti and Nicaragua in front of the White House in 2018.
Photographer: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
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A federal judge blocked the U.S. from ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, the second court to find that revoking TPS was improper.
The decision, the latest in a series of blows to the White House’s immigration policy, comes after the Trump administration planned to remove the protection from tens of thousands of Haitians living legally in the U.S. They gained it after an earthquake devastated the island nation in 2010. The U.S. said conditions had improved enough for their return.