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Citing Racism, Haitian, Salvadoran Immigrants Sue Trump Over End Of Temporary Immigration Program
February 22, 2018 Updated Feb 22, 2018 2:13 PM

    Shannon Dooling
 

Immigrants and advocates in Massachusetts are suing the Trump administration, saying its decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Salvadorans is racially motivated.

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice partnered with the advocacy group Centro Presente to file the lawsuit, which states that the federal government's decision to rescind the temporary immigration status for the two countries was "impermissibly infected by invidious discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, and/or national origin and therefore cannot stand."

http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/02/22/immigrants-sue-trump-tps