On Friday, a federal appeal court blocked the Trump administration schemes to end security for 600,000 people from Venezuela, which were allowed to live and work in the United States.
Three-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeal in California ruled in lower court Maintained Temporary protected position for Venezuela, or TPS, while the case proceeded through court.
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The 9th circuit panel found that the plaintiff was likely to succeed on his claim that the department had no right to evacuate or separate the former TPS extension as the governing law written by the Congress does not allow it.
“In implementing the TPS law, the Congress prepared a system of temporary status which was projected, reliable and untouched by electoral politics,” The court wrote,
US District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco Found in march The plaintiff was likely to be strong on his claim that the administration abolished its right to end security and was inspired by racial animas in doing so. Chen ordered a freeze at the end, but Supreme Court Reverse it without clarificationWhich is common in emergency appeal.
It is not clear what effect Friday’s decision will have an estimated 350,000 Venezuela, whose security ended in April. Security for another group of 250,000 Venezuela is set to end on 10 September.
The Congress authorized the temporary protected situation as part of the 1990 Immigration Act. It allows the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to provide legal immigration status to people escaping from countries that experience civic struggle, environmental disaster or other “extraordinary and temporary circumstances” that prevents a safe return to that home country.
In ending security, Homeland’s Security Secretary Christie Nom said that both Haiti and Venezuela had improved situations and were not in national interest that migrants from both countries would be allowed to live for a temporary program.
Millions of Venezuela people have fled to political unrest, large -scale unemployment and hunger. The country has been brought into crisis for a long time, which have been brought to the years of hyperfluence, political corruption, economic mismanagement and an ineffective government.
