{"id":31862,"date":"2025-07-02T06:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/31862\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T06:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:11:17","slug":"judge-blocks-kristi-noem-from-ending-temporary-protected-status-for-haitians-us-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/31862\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge blocks Kristi Noem from ending temporary protected status for Haitians | US immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s bid to end temporary deportation protections and work permits for approximately 521,000 Haitian immigrants before the program\u2019s scheduled expiration date.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security rescinded Joe Biden\u2019s extension of temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitians through 3 February. It called for the program to end on 3 August, and last week pushed back that date to 2 September.<\/p>\n

The US district judge Brian Cogan in Brooklyn, however, said the homeland security secretary Kristi Noem<\/a> did not follow instructions and a timeline mandated by Congress to reconsider the TPS designation for Haitians.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecretary Noem does not have statutory or inherent authority to partially vacate a country\u2019s TPS designation\u201d, making her actions \u201cunlawful\u201d, Cogan wrote. \u201cPlaintiffs are likely to (and, indeed, do) succeed on the merits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cogan also said Haitians\u2019 interests in being able to live and work in the United States \u201cfar outweigh\u201d potential harm to the US government, which remains free to enforce immigration laws and terminate TPS status as prescribed by Congress.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump<\/a> has made a crackdown on legal and illegal immigration a central plank of his second White House term.<\/p>\n

Cogan was appointed to the bench by George W Bush, also a Republican.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Tricia McLaughlin, homeland security spokesperson, said Haiti\u2019s TPS designation had been granted following the 2010 earthquake in that country, and was never intended as a \u201cde facto\u201d asylum program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis ruling delays justice and seeks to kneecap the President\u2019s constitutionally vested powers,\u201d she said. \u201cWe expect a higher court to vindicate us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Federal courts blocked Trump from ending most TPS enrollment during his first term.<\/p>\n

Nine Haitian TPS holders, an association of churches and a chapter of the Service Employees International Union filed the lawsuit on 14 March, saying Noem did not do a required review of current conditions in Haiti before ending TPS early.<\/p>\n

More than 1 million people, more than half of them children, are displaced within Haiti, where gang violence is prevalent despite a United Nations-backed security mission that began last year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile the fight is far from over, this is an important step,\u201d Manny Pastreich, president of SEIU Local 32BJ, whose members include Haitian TPS holders, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Noem shares Trump\u2019s hardline stance on immigration issues, and moved to end TPS for about 350,000 Venezuelans as well as thousands of people from Afghanistan and Cameroon.<\/p>\n

On 19 May, the US supreme court let TPS end for the Venezuelans, signaling that other terminations could be allowed.<\/p>\n

Noem has authority to grant TPS for six to eight months to people from countries experiencing natural disasters, armed conflict or other extraordinary events.<\/p>\n

The Haitian plaintiffs also claimed the suspension of their TPS status was motivated in part by racial animus, violating their constitutional right to equal protection.<\/p>\n

Trump falsely said in a September 2024 debate with Democratic candidate Kamala Harris that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets, sparking fear of retaliation against Haitians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration\u2019s bid to end temporary deportation protections and work permits for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-31862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114782161083145613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}