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CBS News
02-07-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Judge says Trump administration can't end protected status for Haitian migrants this year
The Trump administration cannot cut off legal status and work permits for hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants this fall, a federal judge ruled late Tuesday. The ruling by Brooklyn-based U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan, who was nominated by former President George W. Bush in 2006, prevents Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from following through on a plan to revoke temporary protected status, or TPS, of Haitians living in the U.S. under the program on Sept. 3, a few months before their status was set to expire under a Biden-era deadline. Nearly 350,000 people from Haiti are currently enrolled in the TPS program, which allows migrants to remain in the U.S. if their home country is unsafe due to war or natural disaster. The federal government first granted TPS designation to Haiti in 2010, and the Biden administration extended it for Haitian migrants until February 2026. DHS announced Friday that benefits will instead end in September, and unless migrants qualify for some other form of legal status, they will lose their right to work and may face deportation. In his ruling Tuesday, Hogan sided with a group of Haitian migrants who sued over the end to TPS for the Caribbean nation. The judge wrote that Noem "does not have statutory or inherent authority to partially vacate a country's TPS designation." Hogan said the DHS secretary "cannot reconsider Haiti's TPS designation in a way that takes effect before February 3, 2026, the expiration of the most recent previous extension." "Plaintiffs have enrolled in schools, taken jobs, and begun courses of medical treatment in the United States in reliance on Haiti's TPS designation lasting until at least February 3, 2026," Hogan wrote in the 23-page ruling. DHS argued last week that TPS is intended to be temporary, and the "environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home." But advocates warn Haiti is wracked by persistent gang violence and health problems. The Trump administration has pushed to wind down TPS for several other countries, including Venezuela and Afghanistan. The Supreme Court allowed the administration to end TPS for Venezuelan migrants in a late May decision, reversing a lower court ruling. CBS News has reached out to the White House and DHS for comment
The Independent
26-06-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
More Americans now favor providing undocumented migrants pathway to legal status over deportation, poll finds
More Americans now favor providing undocumented migrants a pathway to legal status over deportation, a new poll finds. The sentiment was backed by 64 percent of those surveyed and that percentage has increased since President Donald Trump entered office, according to the Quinnipiac University poll of registered voters, while 31 percent said they preferred deportation. Respondents were asked for their preference out of the two options 'if [they] had to choose.' Six months ago, the same poll found that 55 percent favored providing undocumented migrants with a pathway to legal status in the U.S. Among Democrats, 89 percent chose to offer legal status compared to 31 percent of Republicans, who favored deportation. It comes as the Trump administration has launched a sweeping anti-immigration agenda, aiming to carry out what it says is the largest mass-deportation operation in America's history. The administration has cranked up the pressure on federal agencies and increased arrest and deportation targets. As a result, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been in the spotlight as they carry out raids across the country. In total, 59 percent of those polled said they disapprove of the way the president is handling deportations, while 39 percent said they approve. And 56 percent of voters disapprove of how ICE is doing its job, according to the poll, while 39 percent said they approved. The vast majority of Democrats disapprove (89 percent) while Republicans largely approve (77 percent). On how the president is handling immigration issues as a whole, 57 percent of Americans said they disapprove, compared to 41 percent who approve. Only 7 percent of Democrats approve, compared to 86 percent of Republicans. More than 56,000 people are being held in immigration detention, the highest level in years and what may be an all-time record. There were 56, 397 people in immigrant detention as over June 15, according to a Syracuse University database. with roughly 59,000 immigrants behind bars — or 140 percent of the agency's ostensible capacity to hold them.
Washington Post
19-06-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
These are not the immigrants to target
More than 20 years ago, Texas became the first state to offer in-state tuition to students regardless of their immigration status. The purpose of the law — championed by Gov. Rick Perry and supported by all but a few state legislators — was to draw high-achieving undocumented immigrants from the shadows and direct them toward legal status.
Forbes
30-05-2025
- General
- Forbes
Supreme Court Lets Trump Revoke Temporary Protected Status For 500,000 Immigrants
The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport more than 500,000 immigrants on Friday, as justices ruled 7-2 to lift a court order that barred the White House from stripping migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela of their temporary legal status. The Supreme Court paved the way Friday for the Trump administration to deport thousands of ... More immigrants. This story is breaking and will be updated.
