A three-judge panel of the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a legal attempt to block Donald Trump from stripping around 430,000 legal immigrants of their status, opening a door to their mass deportation.
Surprising no one, those targeted by Trump are overwhelmingly Black or brown, and immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
No stopping Trump
In their ruling, the judges said that they:
recognize the risks of irreparable harm persuasively laid out in the district court’s order: that parolees who lawfully arrived in this country were suddenly forced to choose between leaving in less than a month — a choice that potentially includes being separated from their families, communities, and lawful employment and returning to dangers in their home countries. But…the risk of such irreparable harms cannot, by itself, support a stay.
Justice Action Center legal director Esther Sung said the ruling “hurts everyone” and that:
People who came here from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela did everything the government asked of them, and the Trump administration cruelly and nonsensically failed to hold up the government’s end of the bargain. While we are deeply disappointed by this decision, we will continue to advocate zealously for our clients and class members as the litigation continues.
Trump’s pursuit of a white America continues.
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