Unhinged Judge Blocks Ending TPS For 60K In Most Unhinged Manner

Last time I checked the duly elected members of the Legislative Branch gave the Executive Branch the ability to make determination of all Temporary Protected Status, which can only be overriden by the duly elected Legislative Branch. Not the Judicial Branch.

Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for 60,000 from Central America and Nepal

A federal judge ruled on Thursday against the Trump administration’s plans and extended Temporary Protected Status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Temporary Protected Status is a protection that can be granted by the Homeland Security secretary to people of various nationalities who are in the United States, preventing from being deported and allowing them to work. The Trump administration has aggressively been seeking to remove the protection, thus making more people eligible for removal. It’s part of a wider effort by the administration to carry out mass deportations of immigrants.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem can extend Temporary Protected Status to immigrants in the U.S. if conditions in their homelands are deemed unsafe to return due to a natural disaster, political instability or other dangerous conditions. Noem had ruled to end protections for tens of thousands of Hondurans and Nicaraguans after determining that conditions in their homelands no longer warranted them.

The secretary said the two countries had made “significant progress” in recovering from 1998’s Hurricane Mitch, one of the deadliest Atlantic storms in history.

That’s right, 1998. Other people are having no problem living in Honduras (51,000) and Nicaragua (3,000), it’s time for these folks to go home. Their TPS was scheduled to end September 5th. And Nepal? There are 7,000 here. People travel to Nepal all the time to climb mountains, or, at least get close to see them. Their TPS ends August 5th.

U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson in San Francisco did not set an expiration date but rather ruled to keep the protections in place while the case proceeds. The next hearing is Nov. 18.

In a sharply written order, Thompson said the administration ended the migrant status protections without an “objective review of the country conditions” such as political violence in Honduras and the impact of recent hurricanes and storms in Nicaragua.

What case? TPS was granted, TPS ends. That’s the way it works

And, here we go

If the protections were not extended, immigrants could suffer from loss of employment, health insurance, be separated from their families, and risk being deported to other countries where they have no ties, she wrote, adding that the termination of Temporary Protection Status for people from Nepal, Honduras, and Nicaragua would result in a $1.4 billion loss to the economy.

Well, yes, they won’t have it here. And exactly none of that is the judge’s business. It’s not her authority, and, even if she tried, it would only cover her district. TPS is temporary.

“The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek. Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood,” Thompson said.

Oh, good grief. That’s absolutely not a legal ruling, it’s a passion ruling. And beyond unhinged.

Judge Thompson said in her ruling that the Trump administration’s decisions to end the programs “were based on a preordained determination to end the TPS program, rather than an objective review of the country conditions.”

It’s still not in her bailiwick to make a determination.

(CNN) The government argues that Noem has clear and unreviewable authority over the TPS program and that her termination decisions reflect the administration’s objectives in the areas of immigration and foreign policy.

Justice Department attorney William Weiland said it is not a pretext to have a different view of a program that provides temporary safe harbor.

“It is not meant to be permanent,” he said Tuesday.

Democrats want it to be permanent, to create more voters.

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