Judge: Noem ‘pounds X, not the law’ in bid to end Haitian protections
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Federal judge halts plan to end Haitian TPS, accusing Noem of ignoring facts and law while attacking immigrants on X.
A federal judge has put a hold on the Trump administration’s plan to strip nearly 350,000 Haitian nationals of protected status in the United States.
The administration had been set to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians on Tuesday, but U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes intervened late Monday with a sharply worded opinion. In her ruling, Reyes criticized the motives of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for ending TPS.
“There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side—or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side—or at least has ignored it,” Reyes wrote. “Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter). Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the (Administrative Procedure Act) APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program.”
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Temporary Protected Status allows foreign nationals to remain in the U.S. when conditions in their home country — such as armed conflict, environmental disasters or other extraordinary events — make return unsafe. TPS recipients cannot be removed from the country and may obtain work permits, though the program does not provide a direct path to permanent residency.
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