Rewire: Lawsuit Hits Back Against Trump’s Elimination of Immigration Protections: ‘This Is Ethnic Cleansing’

A federal lawsuit was filed today in U.S. District Court challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for an estimated 200,000 people from four countries.

Immigrant advocates are suing the Trump administration on behalf of TPS recipients from Haiti, El Salvador, Sudan, and Nicaragua. Prior to the Trump administration terminating TPS for these countries, Haiti had been designated for TPS for eight years, El Salvador for 17 years, Sudan for 21 years, and Nicaragua for 19 years.

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Inside Sources: Unions Sue to Save Immigrants With Protected Statuses

President Donald Trump’s administration was sued by unions and advocates Monday for reining in a program that helps displaced immigrants by granting them legal status.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California filed the lawsuit alongside the labor unions Unite Here and the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT). The groups are hoping to save hundreds of thousands of immigrants who will soon lose legal status under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. They launched the legal challenge on behalf of Wilna Destin – a Haitian immigrant within the program who serves as a union organizer.

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Community and Labor Organizations Vow to Continue the Fight to Defend and Protect All TPS Recipients, Immigrant Workers and their Families

To all immigrant workers and their families, including union members, DACA recipients, TPS beneficiaries, refugees, and our undocumented brothers and sisters:

We want to assure you that we are not giving up.  We will defend and protect each other and resist the anti-immigrant, racist and xenophobic agenda that is directly targeting working families and communities.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr said, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”  While a permanent legislative solution to provide a pathway to citizenship to all DACA and TPS recipients was not secured this round, we want to remind you that we are building power in our worksites and our communities every day.

Pressuring Congress to take action is only one lever we have to advance a pro-immigrant and pro-worker agenda. In the coming months, we will redouble our efforts using all available options, including, but not limited to, organizing, legal services, litigation, electoral work, collective bargaining and direct action to the create bottom up pressure necessary to win the changes that working people expect and deserve. The rest of this year will give us the opportunity to flex our collective power, on the streets, at job sites, in courthouses and state houses, in the halls of Congress and at the ballot box.

We know that we are stronger together and we refuse to be divided. We will continue to educate and train our co-workers, families, and neighbors, and we will create rapid response networks to prepare for community or workplace raids. The best protection we have is each other and we will demonstrate our solidarity through our actions.

Onward! ¡La Lucha Sigue! Kenbe fem, pa lage!

Adhikar, AFL CIO, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees CARECEN-Los Angeles, International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craft workers, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Ironworkers, Service Employees International Union, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, UndocuBlack Network, UNITE HERE, African Communities Together, and Working Families United.