LatinNews Daily - 08 October 2018

Central America: On 3 October a US federal judge, Edward Chen, issued a preliminary injunction blocking US President Donald Trump’s termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Sudan. TPS temporarily allows those fleeing countries afflicted by war or natural disasters to live and work legally in the US. In 2017 the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) suspended the TPS status of 2,500 Nicaraguan nationals and more than 50,000 Haitian nationals, and in January 2018 it terminated TPS for more than 257,000 Salvadoran nationals. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a US organisation which defends the fundamental rights as outlined is the US Constitution and one of the plaintiffs in the case, Judge Chen’s decision has given a reprieve to some 300,000 immigrants, many of whom have been legally residing and working in the US for years or decades. In his ruling, Chen claimed that Trump’s decision to terminate the TPS without notice or explanation was not only illegal, but also rooted in discrimination.

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