Judge blocks Trump administration’s stripping of Haitians’ protected status

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from stripping temporary protected status from up to 350,000 Haitians. Judge Ana Reyes issued a temporary stay preventing Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, from implementing her decision to remove the status, which was scheduled to expire on Tuesday.

Reyes noted that Noem, in announcing her decision, referred to those seeking refuge as "killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies", and wrote that the plaintiffs who asked her to block the order "are not, it emerges, 'killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies'". She named the five Haitian TPS holders as Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a registered nurse.

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