Lawyers allege that Trump cannot revoke an extension that has already been granted, and that his decision is being driven by racial and ethnic bias.
Immigrant rights groups filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration's decision to end temporary protections against deportation for thousands of Haitian and Venezuelan migrants living in the United States.
The Trump administration is working to cancel the Biden-era “humanitarian parole” program that allowed more than 500,000 Venezuelans, Haitians and other migrants into the US. The move would close a loophole that allowed migrants to fly into the country and stay.
The Trump administration unlawfully ended temporary protected status for thousands of Haitian and Venezuelan nationals living in the United States, according to a new complaint filed Monday.
Trump immigration policy poses a threat to some 1.8 million migrants, sparking legal, economic and humanitarian concerns.Here's what is at stake and who is affected.
Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the suit Monday, seeking to protect legal status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Venezuelan immigrants who have fled their home countries.
Lawyers for Civil Rights was the first organization to file a complaint against the administration for upending temporary protection status.
ICE said a Haitian migrant, who had flown into the US as part of former President Biden's migrant flight program, was arrested and charged with triple murder in North Carolina.
The dismantling of a Biden-era program for Latin Americans has left them uncertain and their U.S.-based sponsors frustrated.
Beneficiaries of federal programs that have allowed migrants — including many from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela— to come to the United States have sued the Trump administration for ending the legal pathways that let them and hundreds of thousands of others to temporarily live and work in the U.