Plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration’s motion to terminate temporary protections for 17,000 immigrants from Afghanistan and Cameroon can move forward with equal protection claims, a Maryland federal judge ruled.
The suit is one of numerous legal challenges to decisions by the Department of Homeland Security to terminate Temporary Protected Status relief for immigrants from 10 countries so far. Removing those designations has been part of a broader DHS effort to wipe out humanitarian protections covering hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
The agency had argued that decisions involving the TPS program are entitled to a deferential standard of review under Trump ...