President Donald Trump has long made clear his intention to reverse much of his predecessor’s immigration policy during his second term.
Among Trump’s plans is the overturning of former President Joe Biden’s expansion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to migrants from a host of countries.
However, the Trump administration has suffered another setback as a Democrat-aligned activist federal judge blocked the president’s attempt to end TPS for over 1.1 million arrivals from Haiti and Venezuela, as Breitbart reports.
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, a Barack Obama appointee, put a halt to the Trump administration’s desired changes to TPS eligibility.
In Chen’s estimation, the administration’s change wrongfully “truncated and condensed” the timeline for curtailing the legal protections and work permits afforded to migrants under the program.
In a 69-page ruling, Chen stated:
“This case arose from action taken post haste by the current DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, to revoke the legal status of Venezuelan and Haitian TPS holders, sending them back to conditions that are so dangerous that even the State Department advises against travel to their home countries.”
He further noted, “The Secretary’s action in revoking TPS was not only unprecedented in the manner and speed in which it was taken