Reprieve for migrants as judge blocks Trump move to dismantle 30-year-old law
The decision temporarily protects about 300,000 people from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Sudan from mass deportations
San Francisco — A federal judge in San Francisco blocked the Trump administration from overturning portions of a George HW Bush-era humanitarian policy that offers US residency to nationals from countries facing perilous conditions. The decision temporarily protects about 300,000 people from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Sudan from mass deportations at the hands of Trump’s department of homeland security. More broadly, US District Judge Edward Chen’s preliminary injunction halts the administration from stripping those four nations of their temporary protected status, which recognises that they are dangerous places to live due do natural disasters, drug epidemics or armed conflict. The justice department argued that Trump’s “America First” agenda shaped the decision to end the temporary protected status policy. Plaintiffs argued that was simply code for the government’s efforts to block nonwhites from immigrating to the US, a violation of the US constitution’s equal protection...
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