San Francisco (AP) – A Federal Court of Appeal On Friday blocked the plans of the Trump government to terminate the protection for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States.
A panel with three judges of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed a ruling from a lower court that maintained the temporary protected status for Venezolans while the case went through the court.
An e -mail at the Department of Homeland Security for comment was not returned immediately.
The 9th circuit panel found that the claimants would probably succeed in claiming that the Department had no authority to leave or set aside an earlier TPS extension because the status written by the congress does not allow it.
“When performing the TPS status, the congress designed a system of temporary status that was predictable, reliable and isolated of election policy,” the court wrote.
Judge Edward Chen of the American district of San Francisco discovered in March that claimants would probably prevail on their claim that the administration exceeded its authority when ending the protection and was motivated by racial animus. Chen ordered a freezing of the terminations, but the Supreme Court turned it back without explanation, which is common in emergency aid.
It is unclear what effect the statement of Friday will have on the estimated 350,000 Venezuelans whose protection is run in April. Protections for another group of 250,000 Venezuelans will end on 10 September.
Congress authorized temporary protected status, or TPS, as part of the 1990 Immigration Act. It enables the Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Security to grant legal immigration status to human flighting countries that prevent civil struggle, environmental disaster or other “extraordinary and temporary circumstances” that prevent a safe return to that home country.
When the protection is terminated, the Ministry of Interior Security Kristi Noom said that the conditions in both Haiti and Venezuela had improved and that it was not in the national interest to allow migrants from the two countries to stay for a temporary program.
Millions of Venezuelans have fled that political unrest, massive unemployment and hunger has fled. The country is entangled in a long -term crisis caused by years of hyperinflation, political corruption, economic mismanagement and an ineffective government.
