Black and Latino Immigrants Sue Trump for Racism Over Ending of TPS Program

Style Magazine Newswire | 3/2/2018, 12:13 p.m.
A group of Haitian and Salvadoran immigrants sued the Trump administration in a federal court in Boston, arguing that the …

Source: Newsweek.com

A group of Haitian and Salvadoran immigrants sued the Trump administration in a federal court in Boston, arguing that the decision to end special protections that shielded them from deportation was motivated by racism against blacks and Latinos. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil and Economic Justice, a Boston-based legal non-profit, filed the suit on behalf of eight immigrants enrolled in the Temporary Protected Status program, or TPS. The lawsuit seeks to block President Donald Trump's attempt to strip TPS from hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and El Salvador next year. Central to the group's discrimination claims are Trump's string of derogatory comments against immigrants, including equating Mexican immigrants with rapists, saying all Haitian immigrants "have AIDS," and referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shithole” countries.

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