A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from stripping tens of thousands of asylum seekers and immigrants who have Temporary Protected Status of their ability to work in the United States.
Background
The judge, Nathaniel Gorton, sided with a coalition of immigrant rights groups and labor unions that sued to block U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from moving forward with a series of policies designed to implement new immigration-related restrictions enacted by Congress last year.
The Trump administration has sought to end Temporary Protected Status for people from more than a dozen countries, including El Salvador, Sudan, and Ukraine. The U.S. Supreme Court last month allowed it to do so in the case of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants.
The plaintiffs argued that the new USCIS policies were invalid because the public never received notice and a chance to comment on them before they were adopted, as required by the Administrative Procedure Act.
Impact
The judge’s ruling ensures that thousands of families will not lose their livelihoods while courts consider whether the administration’s policies are legal. The ruling will be in place until the judge decides whether to issue a longer-term pause of the Trump administration’s policy.
Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
