A lower court’s decision to suspend 60, 000 migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal’s temporary protections has been overturned by a US appeals court, which has sided with the Trump administration.
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted an emergency stay while an appeal was pending on Wednesday. The administration’s alleged unlawful action was used by the administration to end Honduran, Nicaragua, and Nepal’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations.
With this decision, the Republican administration can begin removing an estimated 7, 000 Nepalis whose TPS designations expired on August 5. On September 8, the TPS designations and legal status of 51, 000 Hondurans and 3, 000 Nicaraguans will expire, with the removal of those designations and legal status.
The district court stayed the district court’s ruling granting plaintiffs’ motion to postpone until this court makes a new order, the judges wrote.
A district judge set aside a hearing on the merits in July to hold until November in which case the TPS would continue in effect. She stated in her ruling that the plaintiffs would suffer “irreparable harm” as a result of the hasty termination, but that the general public would be impacted by the labor force’s and community’s decline.
There was no justification in the brief decision of Wednesday, and UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy co-director Ahilan Arulanantham claimed there appeared to be no due process in a statement released on Wednesday.
The court’s failure to provide any justification for its decision, including why this was an “emergency,” is far below what due process demands and our clients deserve.
TPS allows citizens of nations that are in conflict, a natural disaster, or other extraordinary circumstances to temporarily reside in the US. They are also permitted to travel and work.
More people are now eligible for removal as a result of the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to remove the protection. The administration’s wider plan is to carry out mass deportations of immigrants.
Source: Aljazeera
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