A federal court in San Francisco has suspended the Trump
administration’s termination of temporary protected status for hundreds
of thousands of immigrant refugees living in the United States.
On October 3, U.S.
District Court Judge Edward Chen issued a preliminary injunction that
prohibits the administration from stripping temporary protected
status from immigrants who fled wars and natural disasters in El
Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Sudan between 1997 and 2010 to seek
refuge in the U.S. The injunction will allow these immigrants to remain
in the country legally and with work authorization until the lawsuit
challenging the administration’s temporary protected status terminations
is resolved in the courts.
With the government almost
certain to appeal the decision, and with the liberal 9th Circuit Court
of Appeals likely to uphold it, this ultimately leaves the fate of
temporary protected status in the hands of the Supreme Court. The
futures of temporary protected status-holders and their families thus
hang on the outcome of the confirmation battle over Judge Brett
Kavanaugh, or a replacement nominee. For the time being, however, this
ruling affords them a temporary reprieve.
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Source: The Intercept_
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