📰 Federal Court Orders Trump To Delay Termination of TPS for Syria

A federal court ordered the Trump administration, Wednesday, to delay its termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for syria-faces-highest-concentration-of-needs/" class="smart-internal-link" title="📰 UN spox says NE Syria faces “highest concentration of needs”">syria/" class="auto-internal-link">syria while the legal case challenging the decision moves forward. The judge issued a verbal order, and a written version is forthcoming.

Last month, the International Refugee aid Project (IRAP), Muslim Advocates, and Van Der Hout LLP sued the Trump administration for unlawfully terminating TPS on behalf of a class of syrian/" class="auto-internal-link">syrian TPS holders and applicants who have lived in the United States for years.   Without the court intervention, this Friday, November 21, more than 6,100 syrians would have lost their legal status and work authorization and potentially been forced to return to Syria – a country still reeling from nearly 14 years of civil war and ongoing armed crisis. “The court recognized the immense harm Syrian TPS holders would suffer if the administration’s plan to illegally terminate their status was allowed to take effect this week,” stated Lupe Aguirre, Senior Litigation Attorney at IRAP. “Thousands of people who have built their lives here–students, elderly people, parents, doctors, teachers, and other professionals–would have lost their ability to live and work with authorization in the United States in just two days. This would have had devastating repercussions on their lives, the lives of their loved ones, and on their communities.

The administration’s ongoing war on TPS is rooted in bias, not facts, and we will continue to fight this unlawful termination in court. ” “With little to no notice, this administration has played with human lives in its attempts to unlawfully terminate TPS for Syrian nationals who have been living in fear of being forcibly deported to a dire relief crisis in a matter of days,” stated Sadaf Hasan, Staff Attorney at Muslim Advocates. “Today’s ruling is a win against the administration’s broader racist and anti-immigrant agenda to eliminate access to TPS for countless other non-white immigrant communities who are part of this country’s fabric. While the halt provides impacted TPS holders a brief exhale, our work continues to ensure their rights and the rule of law are upheld. ” “Today’s order halts the plainly unlawful decision to terminate Syria’s TPS designation and aligns with a chorus of other courts that have similarly refused to be complicit in the administration’s efforts to make America white again,” said Johnny Sinodis, Partner at Van Der Hout LLP. “Congress delineated a very clear procedure that DHS must follow…