A federal judge in San Francisco blocked the Trump administration from canceling deportation protections for several hundred thousand Venezuelans in the US.
About 350,000 Venezuelans would have lost a legal status known as Temporary Protected Status on April 7 barring court action.
District Court Judge Edward M. Chen found plaintiffs were likely to succeed in showing the termination of TPS protections by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was unlawful, arbitrary and capricious, and motivated by unconstitutional animus in an order Monday.
The termination of TPS benefits would damage the economy and public safety, Chen wrote. And he found ...
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