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Appeals court allows Trump to end temporary protected status for immigrants

by City News Service • September 14, 2020 15 Comments

President Donald Trump [White House press photo]
LOS ANGELES  – A Los Angeles County civil rights group blasted a federal appeals court ruling Monday that allows the Trump administration to end the temporary protected status of at least 300,000 immigrants who live and work in the United States.

A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco vacated a preliminary injunction that prevented the government from sending immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan back to their home countries.

The plaintiffs were given protection in the U.S. because their countries suffered from war, natural disasters or other humanitarian emergencies that made it unsafe for their citizens abroad to return home. Because the protected immigrants have several hundred thousand American children — many of whom are school-aged — the decision could force those families to be torn apart, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

President Donald Trump referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and various African nations as “shithole countries” in 2018. Ahilan Arulanantham, senior counsel of the ACLU, said, “The president’s vile statements about TPS holders made perfectly clear that his administration acted out of racial animus. The Constitution does not permit policy to be driven by racism. We will seek further review of the court’s decision.”

The decision affects 300,000 non-citizens and 200,000 of their children who are U.S. citizens. Pending appeals, TPS holders would lose their lawful status and their children could be forced to make a choice between their families and their homes.

“To end protections for over 400,000 TPS families, including the more than 130,000 people who have been risking their lives as essential workers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, would be very cruel, especially during these difficult times,” said Paul Andre Mondesir, lead organizer for the National TPS Alliance.

“This is a difficult decision for our struggle but it is far from finished,” he said. “Our plaintiffs, our legal team, and the TPS community are preparing to appeal the decision in the entire Ninth Circuit. We will exhaust every legal recourse at our disposal to protect our community and our loved ones. We will take this fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary and continue to demand that Congress act now to pass a permanent residency.”

In friend-of-the-court briefs, 18 states including California, plus 34 local jurisdictions including Los Angeles County, supported the effort to keep the district court’s preliminary injunction in place.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said, “We will not stand idly by as our neighbors and colleagues are ripped from their families.”

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Filed Under: Home, Los Angeles County, Politics

15 comments for "Appeals court allows Trump to end temporary protected status for immigrants"

  1. Tim says

    September 16, 2020 at 7:56 am

    Nothing is more permanent than a temporary, government program.

    Reply
  2. Claire says

    September 16, 2020 at 6:35 am

    If all undocumented immigrants were deported today, next year’s Social Security trust funds would have approximately $13 billion less for benefit payouts, also $3 billion less in Medicare.

    Reply
    • Beecee says

      September 16, 2020 at 9:17 pm

      “If all undocumented immigrants were deported today”

      We could go on and on about how many things would change if this was to happen.

      Social security…..

      Lol

      Reply
  3. Claire says

    September 16, 2020 at 6:16 am

    Most undocumented immigrants work hard and are given ITIN’s, paying taxes and also paying into Social Security which they are not entitled to. These hard working people standing side by side doing essential risky jobs most U.S. citizens won’t do.

    Reply
    • Beecee says

      September 16, 2020 at 9:20 pm

      Yeah,
      And with all that they are also giving a drivers license and a right to vote!

      Winning

      Reply
  4. Diana says

    September 16, 2020 at 4:45 am

    ATTENTION ALL ILLEGALS: MOVE TO CALIFORNIA, WHERE THE TAX PAYERS WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO PAY FOR YOUR EVERY NEED! VIVA LA CALIFORNIA!!!!!

    Reply
    • Poor Diana says

      September 16, 2020 at 7:39 am

      Diana, pay attention please, the article clearly states these are TPS holders (Temporary Protected Status). Is your hate for South and Central American people that strong that you skip through the actual written article to spew your bile and venom? If you still reside here in California, I hope that we see you pack your things and leave soon, we don’t need your crap and nonsense here, the “good ol’ boys” AKA white Republicans are dying off by the dozens. Adios!

      Reply
  5. surfside 6 says

    September 15, 2020 at 5:27 pm

    Cheer up “eee-mi greents”! After all, you “only came here to work” anyway.

    Reply
  6. Bam says

    September 15, 2020 at 3:28 pm

    … the Nancy Pelosi people want gourmet iced cream, expensive refrigerators, and all California voters bumped out and replaced, by illegal immigrants –

    Reply
  7. Claire says

    September 15, 2020 at 2:12 pm

    I hope with all my heart that this doesn’t physically happen.

    Reply
  8. James says

    September 15, 2020 at 10:48 am

    Thank You President Trump.

    Reply
  9. Protected Status says

    September 15, 2020 at 1:01 am

    Goodbye!

    Reply
  10. Really? says

    September 14, 2020 at 5:22 pm

    I like the way it went from 300,000 to 400,000 in just a single news article…..

    Reply
  11. AV Illegal says

    September 14, 2020 at 5:20 pm

    Very surprising from one of the most liberal courts in the land.

    Reply
  12. W says

    September 14, 2020 at 5:13 pm

    They have to go back

    Reply

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