A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s bid to cancel deportation protections and work permits for more than 63,000 Nicaraguan, Honduran and Nepali immigrants, saying the decision by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared rooted in racism.
“Color is neither a poison nor a crime,” U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson said in a 37-page ruling Thursday, which postponed a Sept. 8 deadline Noem had imposed for those 63,000 immigrants to leave the country or lose Temporary Protected Status, better known as TPS.
The Trump administration is almost certain to appeal Thompson’s ruling and may have reason for optimism that it will be reversed in the appellate courts. The Supreme Court recently lifted the bulk of a lower-court judge’s order postponing Noem’s termination of TPS for thousands of Venezuelans, and allowed the termination of a similar immigration status known as parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.
Still, Thompson’s accusation of racism by senior Trump administration officials concurred with the claims of advocates who have described the president’s mass deportation agenda as an effort to target people of color.
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Author: Faith Novak
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