Thursday, January 25, 2018

NAACP Files Lawsuit Over Trump Administration Plan to End Protections for Haitians


The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration’s plans to end temporary protected status for Haitians, the group said Wednesday.

The NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund said that the planned end of the "temporary protected status" for Haitians who were allowed entry to the U.S. following a devastating earthquake in 2010 "discriminates against immigrants of color" and violates protections of due process and equal protection under the Fifth Amendment.

"The decision by the Department of Homeland Security to rescind TPS status for Haitian immigrants was infected by racial discrimination," Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., said in a statement. 

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Source: NBC News 

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