San Francisco (AP) – A federal judge decided on Thursday against the Trump government’s plans and expanded the transient protection status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua.
The transient protection status is a protection that the secretary of the home protection for people of different nationalities that are in the United States can be granted, which prevented them from being deported and enabled them to work. The Trump government has aggressively tried to remove protection, which is where more people are entitled to remove. It is part of a more comprehensive exertion by the government to carry out mass deportation from immigrants.
Kristi Noem, secretary of the homeland protection authority, can be temporarily protected in the United States if the conditions in their home countries are classified as unsafe due to a natural disaster, political instability or other unsafe conditions. Noem had decided to end tens of thousands of Hondurians and Nicaraguans after found that the conditions in their home countries no longer justified them.
The secretary said that the two countries had achieved “considerable progress” in the recovery of Hurricane Mitch of 1998, one of the deadliest Atlantic storms in history.
The name for an estimated 7,000 from Nepal should end on August 5, while protective measures, which enabled 51,000 Hondurans and almost 3,000 Nicaraguans, who have been in the USA for more than 25 years, were to expire on September 8.
The US district judge Trina L. Thompson in San Francisco did not set an expiry date, decided more to keep protection during the case. The next hearing is November 18.
In a sharply written order, Thompson said that the administration ended the protection of migrant status without an “objective review of country conditions” such as political violence in Honduras and the effects of the youngest hurricanes and storms in Nicaragua.
If the protection had not been extended, immigrants could be separated from their families, health insurance, and the risk that they will be deported to other countries in which they have no connections, she wrote that the termination of the transient protection status for people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua for a loss of 1.4 billion US dollars in the amount of 1.4 Would lead billions of US dollars.
“Freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of freedom and the American dream. This is all the plaintiffs. Instead, they are told that they should pay for their breed, go because of their names and clean their blood,” said Thompson.
The National TPS Alliance lawyers argued that NoEM’s decisions were predetermined by President Donald Trump’s campaign and motivated by racial animus.
Thompson agreed and said that statements Noem and Trump immortalized the “discriminatory conviction that certain population groups of immigrants will replace the white population”.
“Color is neither a poison nor a crime,” she wrote.
The Advocacy group, which submitted the lawsuit, said that the representatives usually have one year to leave the country, but in this case they got far less.
“They gave them two months to leave the country. It is terrible,” said Ahilan Arulanantham, a lawyer for plaintiffs at a hearing on Tuesday.
The deputy foreign minister of Honduras, Antonio GarcÃa, told The Associated Press: “The judge recognized the need for the (TPS owners), in peace, calm and legally.”
He remembered that there was a similar legal challenge during the first Trump government and that the fight in the courts lasted five years. This time he hoped for a similar result that would enable the Hondurians to stay in the United States
“Today’s news is hopeful and positive and give us time and oxygen, hopefully it will be a long way, and the judge will have the last word and not the last word and not the president Trump,” he said.
In Nicaragua, hundreds of thousands fled into exile when the government detained thousands of non -governmental organizations and imprisoned political opponents. Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega and his wife and co-president Rosario Murillo have consolidated complete control in Nicaragua since Ortega has returned to power two decades ago.
In February, a committee of UN experts warned that the Nicaraguan government had reduced the last remaining checks and credit and “systematically carried out a strategy to determine the overall control of the country through serious human rights violations”.
The comprehensive efforts through the procedure of the Republican administration against immigration have persecuted people who are illegal in the country, but also by the protection of people that enabled people to live and work temporarily in the United States.
The Trump government has already ended the protection for around 350,000 Venezuelans, 500,000 Haitians, more than 160,000 Ukrainians and thousands of people from Afghanistan and Cameroon. Some have pending complaints from federal courts.
The government argued that Noem has a clear authority about the program and that its decisions reflect the goals of the administration in the areas of immigration and foreign policy.
“It shouldn’t be permanent,” said William Weiland, lawyer of the Ministry of Justice.
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Ding reported Los Angeles. Marlon González -actor from Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
