"U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington granted to pause the termination of temporary protected status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds. The TPS designation for people from the Caribbean island country was scheduled to end Feb. 3. Reyes said in an accompanying 83-page opinion that plaintiffs were likely to prevail on the merits of the case, and that she found it substantially likely that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants."
"Temporary Protected Status can be granted by the Homeland Security secretary if conditions in home countries are deemed unsafe for return due to a natural disaster, political instability or other dangers. While it grants TPS holders the right to live and work in the U.S., it does not provide a legal pathway to citizenship. The Trump administration has aggressively sought to remove the protection, making more people eligible for deportation. The moves are part of the administration's wider, mass deportation effort."
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued a stay blocking the termination of Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitians, preserving their ability to work and protection from detention and deportation while a lawsuit proceeds. Reyes found plaintiffs likely to prevail and concluded it was substantially likely that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem preordained the termination decision because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. Haiti's TPS was scheduled to end Feb. 3 and was first activated after the 2010 earthquake. The administration has sought to end TPS for hundreds of thousands from multiple countries as part of a broader deportation effort.
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