Judge blocks Trump from ending deportation protection for Venezuelans
About 350,000 Venezuelans who sought refuge in the U.S. were set to lose their work permits and protection against deportation next week. A federal judge delayed that action, which he said “smacks of racism.”
U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen wrote that Noem’s swift decision to terminate temporary protected status and mischaracterization of Venezuelans as criminals was unlawful and “smacks of racism.”
In a strongly worded 78-page ruling, the judge granted the plaintiffs’ motion to postpone Noem’s actions. He said her rationale for ending protections for people from the South American country is “entirely lacking in evidentiary support.”
“It is evident that the Secretary made sweeping negative generalizations about Venezuelan TPS beneficiaries,” he wrote, listing several examples in which Noem repeated President Donald Trump’s false claims that most were criminals.
“Acting on the basis of a negative group stereotype and generalizing such stereotype to the entire group is the classic example of racism,” the judge wrote.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/31/trump-venezuelan-migrants-tps-deportations/
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