SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Federal Court of Appeals blocked Trump administration on Friday Plans to end protection 600,000 people from Venezuela who lived and had permission to work in the United States.
Three judge panels of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Circuit, unanimously endorsed Lower Court Judgment It maintained the Venezuelan temporary protected status while the case proceeded in court.
An email to the Department of Homeland Security was not immediately returned for comments.
The 9th Circuit judge found that plaintiffs are likely to succeed in their claim that Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem has no authority to exempt or aside the prior extension of temporary protected positions, as the control laws written by Congress do not allow it. The then-President Joe Biden’s democratic administration extended the temporary protected status of the people of Venezuelans.
“In enacting the TPS Act, Congress designed a system of temporary positions that is predictable, reliable, and segregated from electoral politics,” wrote Judge Kim Wardlow, whose Democrat, was appointed. Two other judges on the panel were also nominated for Democratic presidents.
San Francisco US District Judge Edward Chen ruled in March that the plaintiffs could likely win the allegations that President Donald Trump’s Republican administration had stepped over his authority to end protections and that doing so was motivated by racial animus. Chen ordered a freeze on fire, but the Supreme Court I turned him over Without explanation, this is common in emergency appeals.
It is unclear how the ruling on Friday will affect an estimated 350,000 Venezuelans in a group of 600,000 people whose protection expired in April. Their lawyers say some have already been fired from their jobs, taken into custody in immigration prisons, separated from children of US citizens and further deported. The protections for the remaining 250,000 Venezuelans are set to expire on September 10th.
Congress has been permitted Temporary Protection Statusor as part of the TPS, Immigration Act of 1990. It allows secretaries to the Department of Homeland Security to grant legal immigration status to a fleeing country to those experiencing civil conflict, environmental disasters, or other “extraordinary conditions” that prevent a country from returning safely.
In ending the protection, Noem said the situation in Venezuela had improved and it was not in the US national interest to allow immigrants to stay for temporary programs from there.
Millions of Venezuelans have fled political unrest, massive unemployment and hunger. Their country is in a long-term crisis brought about by years of hyperinflation, political corruption, economic mismanagement and ineffective government.
U.S. government lawyers argued that the clear and broad authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to make decisions related to the TPS program is not subject to judicial review. They also denied that Noem’s actions were motivated by racial animus.
