US President Trump's deportation plans are extremely controversial. Now a judge has prevented the end of the protection status for Venezuelans. They threaten them “irreparable damage” – and there is “a aftertaste of racism”.
A US judge has stopped the government's lifting to the temporary protection status for more than 600,000 Venezuelans. District judge Edward Chen said that the plan of US Minister of Homeland Protection Minister Kristi Noem is threatening “hundreds of thousands of people” an “irreparable damage”.
In addition, the United States will cost billions of economic activity and affect public health and security in the municipalities across the country. The government failed to present real damage to the continuation of the so -called Temporary Protection Status (TPS), argued Chen. He explained that his arrangement had nationwide.
Protection against deportation
The TPS protects immigrants from deportation, which, for example, fled to the USA for armed conflicts and environmental disasters. People with this protection status rely on the government to renew their status when it expires after 18 months.
However, critics, especially from the Republican rows, complained that protection status would be automatically extended over time.
The lawsuit was submitted by lawyers from National TPS Alliance and by several people with this protection status from all over the country. Today is a good day for immigrants in this country, said Pablo Alvarado, co-managing director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
“Smoke of racism”
The government's plan for the lifting of temporary protection status TPS on April 7th had a “aftertaste of racism” and incorrectly represented Venezolans as criminals, said Richter Chen. It is obvious that Noem “made a general negative generalizations about Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries,” he said, according to the “Washington Post”.
As examples, he cited the wrong claims expressed by US President Donald Trump and repeated by NoEM that the majority of Venezuelans in the United States were criminal.
Noem's justification for the order that she made shortly after her swearing -in was “completely insufficient”. Actions “based on a negative group stereotypical and the generalization of this stereotypical on the entire group” are “the classic example of racism,” argued Chen in his 78 -page judgment.
Protection status does not initially expire
The injunction issued by the court in San Francisco prevents Noem's Ministry of Homeland Protection from leaving the protection status on April 7th. The order thus gives those affected time to proceed legally against the project. The Trump government had lifted the temporary protection status at the end of January, which more than 600,000 Venezuelans enjoy in the United States.
Under Trump's predecessor Joe Biden, the temporary protection status had been extended to more than a million people – in addition to Venezuela, especially from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine.
Shortly after taking office in a decree, Trump had ordered the protection status for people of different nationalities to check the protection of the American people against an invasion “shortly after taking office. The temporary protection status is granted in the USA foreign citizens who cannot safely return to their home countries due to war, natural disasters or other “extraordinary” circumstances.
Trump's hard course against irregular migration
Before the 2024 presidential election, Trump had made the prospect of an extremely tough course against irregular migration campaign and promised the largest deportation campaign in US history. His approach is highly controversial. Since February, more than 900 Venezuelans have been deported to their homeland, most of the USA and some from Mexico.
In March, more than 200 Venezuelans were deported to El Salvador for detention, but partly a law from 1798 against “foreign enemies” was used. The US government accused the Venezuelans of being a member of the notorious drug gang tren de Aragua. Relatives and the Venezuelan government, on the other hand, spoke of innocent migrants.
