Washington – The Venezuelans with temporary legal protection have sued the Trump administration because of their decision to remove around 350,000 immigrants of their status by April 7.
The temporary protected status enables people to legally live and work in the United States if they have conditions that would prevent a safe return to their home countries. The loss of TPS means that the Venezuelan immigrants could be deported.
The complaint was submitted on Wednesday evening in San Francisco with the US district court for the Northern District of California by the National TPS Alliance and eight Venezolans. The lawsuit accuses Kristi Noem, the secretary of the home protection authority, Noem, an 18-month expansion of protection for Venezolans illegally, which was granted by the bidet administration shortly before President Biden.
Another 250,000 Venezuelans are expected to lose their protection in September.
The plaintiffs' lawyers said that the step of the Trump government to lift the extension was unprecedented. Since the status set the status in 1990, no administration has ended protection prematurely. It argues in the lawsuit that the administration has violated the federal law, since the law on administrative procedures does not allow early terminations and requires a review period.
The lawsuit also claims that the termination has been motivated by racist animus to Venezuelans. Jessica Bansal, a lawyer of the Los Angeles -based National Day Laborer Organizing Network, pointed to Noem's appearance in Fox News to explain the termination decision in which she said: “People in this country want these dirtbags. They want their communities to be safe. ”
On the campaign path last year and in office, President Trump repeatedly referred to immigrants as dangerous and a threat.
“All of their language was really invited,” said Bansal and found that immigrants only secure a temporary protection status after a review process that contains a background check.
“If you look at the case law, this is the kind of language courts that clearly show racist animus,” she said.
The plaintiffs are also represented by the ACLU foundations of North and Southern California as well as the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law.
Hendrina Vivas Castillo, 49, is one of the plaintiffs mentioned. Vivas Castillo, who lives in Culver City, said she had entered the United States in a tourist visa and decided to stay partly because she knew that she would have legal protection under TPS. She is now working as a grocery driver, but her license will take place in two months if her protection ends.
“My worries began at first when I found out that they would revoke our TPS,” she said. “What do I do here? I hope this complaint can help us Venezuelans. ”
The Venezuelans are just a group of hundreds of thousands of people who have benefited from legal immigration paths that Trump has blocked since taking office last month.
“The three regimes that exist in Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba said this month.
Trump card ordered A review of all 17 of TPS designated countries and legal experts states that the same reasons for the termination of Venezuela could be applied to another country of advantage.
The step to terminate the TPS protection for some Venezuelans represents a reversal for Trump. Shortly before he left office in 2021, he offered certain Venezolans A similar immigration credit This protected her from deportation and called the situation in Venezuela “the worst humanitarian crisis in the western hemisphere recently”.
In A Federal Registration Noem wrote that Venezuela marked the termination, “remarkable improvements in several areas such as the economy, public health and in crime” and that members of Tren de Aragua Gang belong to the Venezoleers who were allowed to enter the USA
The termination has caused a division among Republicans. In A Letter to anyone this month, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) Asked to “ensure that the Venezuelan citizens without a criminal register are not violently returned to one of the most repressive dictatorships in the world”.
During his first presidency, Trump moved TPS for 95% of people who had it, including those of El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Nepal and Honduras. These dismissals were stalled in court, and when bidding took up an office, he moved the course and expanded the protection with people from additional countries, including Venezuela.