There’s a lot missing from this nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/… story on the decision to redesignate Haiti for TPS. Here’s some more context: @esullivannyt @TPS_Alliance @ReichlinMelnick @newman_chris @GuerlineMJozef @ErikaAndiola @eeerox @ACLU @ACLU_SoCal @davidcolker 1/
It says Trump tried to kill TPS as part of a “hard-line” effort to curb immigration. That line gets an A+ for white-washing! @nytimes plz state the facts about the former admin's motivations. They matter! Esp bc the Biden admin continues to keep some Trump policies in place. 2/
What are the facts about the Trump-era TPS terminations? Trump said, in a mtng _about TPS holders_, that he didn't want “people from shithole countries coming here,” and instead wanted more people from “countries like Norway.”nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/… 3/
Several courts found the Haiti TPS termination motivated by racism (and illegal on other grounds too). 2 issued injunctions - Saget, and Ramos (which enjoined all the Trump TPS terminations). The CA9 decision reversing Ramos did not dispute that Trump was motivated by racism. 4/
And that ruling has yet to take effect because we appealed it (sought rehearing en banc) and, before the appeal was decided, the Biden admin agreed to seek extensions while it decided what to do. That process has now dragged on for four months. 5/
In other words, the Biden admin STILL has not said whether it wants to defend the "shithole countries" Trump-era decisions, either in Ramos or Centro Presente (another TPS case in which a court could in the future issue an injunction). 6/
Today's piece also fails to connect dots to TPS for El Salvador (incl. this NYT reporting) nytimes.com/2021/04/07/mag… Most of the remaining people who have lived here lawfully for decades but remain in theory subject to the Trump-era TPS decisions are Salvadoran (about 200k). 7/
Trump also terminated TPS for 85k Hondurans, 15k Nepalis, 4k Nicaraguans, and 1.5k Sudanese. Most of them have lived here for decades. #TPSJustice means granting them permanent residence (as in HR 6). But at minimum the Biden admin should designate those countries for TPS. /end
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