Federal judge blocks Trump from deporting hundreds of thousands of immigrants under TPS
Posted: Oct 03, 2018 9:59 PM EDT
Updated: Oct 4, 2018 2:50 PM
By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt its plan to end a special federal immigration program that has allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants to legally live and work in the U.S. for decades.
U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ruled that the administration may have side-stepped federal rule-making guidelines, imposed undue political pressure on staffers, and violated the Equal Protection Clause by basing its decision "on animus against non-white, non-European immigrants."
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