The judge’s rules terminating the defense of Venezuelan and Haitian migrants is illegal

The Trump administration’s efforts to undress hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan and Haitian migrants from legal protection are illegal, says a US judge.

District Judge Edward Chen’s decision allocates the Ministry of Interior Security (DHS) experience to terminate the temporary protective status (TPS) for people from countries that are experiencing conditions that make it dangerous to return.

This will allow about 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians to continue to live and work legally in the United States. DHS indicated that I would appeal the decision.

The TPS program was created by Congress in 1990 to give temporary protection to migrants from countries that experience war and natural disasters.

In a 69 -page decision, Judge Chen wrote that the action of DHS secretary Christ Nov in the withdrawal of their protective status “was not only unprecedented in the way and the speed in which it was taken, but also violates the law.”

He said the conditions in their countries are “so dangerous that even the State Department advises against the trip.”

In response to the decision, a DHS spokesman told the BBC that the scheme had been “abused, operated and politicized as a factual amnesty program”, while stating that he would evaluate his legitimate capabilities.

“Unsnounced activist judges cannot stop the will of the American people for a safe and secure homeland,” the spokesman added.

There are about 600,000 migrants who have TP from Venezuela, the largest country included in the program. Former President Joe Biden has expanded the program to include Haiti, Afghanistan, Cameroon and Ukraine.

President Donald Trump tried Turn out the extension When he returned to the office earlier this year and also tried to completely terminate the designation of Venezuela.

In March, the administration, fulfilling the promise of Trump’s campaign to destroy immigration, said it would do so cancel the temporary legal status Out of more than half a million migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

These migrants were warned to leave the country before their permits and deporting shields were canceled on April 24.

National TPS Alliance and Venezuelan TPS holders a claim against the Trump and DHS administration earlier this year, claiming that NOEM does not have the power to unilaterally return the extension provided by the previous administration.

In May, the The Supreme Court froze the earlier decision and allowed the Trump administration to terminate the TPS program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.

But Judge Chen, the Federal Judge in California, said in his decision on Friday that the Supreme Court’s decision deals only with the prior relief he ordered.

This does not exclude it, he writes, from issuing new orders.

Also on Friday, Federal Court of Appeal in Washington DC decided that the Trump administration could not continue to reduce foreign care.

The decision requires the administration to move quickly to spend funds on congress authorized projects.

The administration has detained $ 4 billion ($ 3 billion in British pounds) funding, assigned to the US International Development Agency, which was selected during Trump’s second term.