From the Associated Press (AP),
Appeals court allows Trump to end temporary protections for migrants from Central America and Nepal.
Details,
This means that the Republican administration can move toward removing an estimated 7,000 people from Nepal whose Temporary Protected Status [TPS] designations expired Aug. 5. The TPS designations and legal status of 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are set to expire Sept. 8, at which point they will become eligible for removal.
I’ve been tracking cases in Minnesota (now up to 75) of federal felony prosecutions of illegal aliens for returning after previous deportations. I’ve had one or two from Honduras, but none so far from Nepal or Nicaragua.
Bill Melugin of Fox News posts a quote from the overturned district judge (Trina Thompson) herself on Twitter (X),
The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek. Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood. The Court disagrees.
While it’s a little shocking to hear this from a Senate-confirmed sitting judge, I hear this sentiment all the time from the defense attorneys for illegal aliens. They maintain that their clients are guilty of, at most, a “status” offenses, where they are being prosecuted for who they are, not what they’ve done.
No. Crossing the border is a kinetic, overt, deliberate act in defiance of law. No one is being prosecuted for being Honduran, they are prosecuted for the felony crime of crossing the border after having been previously deported.
And the phrase “lacking documentation.” If I were to lose my passport, and be unable to find one, I am highly confident I could obtain a new one, with a little time, money and effort.
Deportees are not lacking documentation, they are ineligible, not qualified, barred from obtaining such documents through legal, legitimate means. They are not lacking.
From the AP,
Immigrant rights advocates say TPS holders from Nepal have lived in the U.S. for more than a decade while people from Honduras and Nicaragua have lived in the country for 26 years, after Hurricane Mitch in 1998 devastated both countries.
What does the word “temporary” mean? Also,
Honduras Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Torres said Wednesday that the appellate decision was unfortunate. He said the government hopes to at least buy time for Hondurans with the temporary status so they can seek out another way to stay legally in the U.S.
Why doesn’t he want his citizens back in Honduras to Make Honduras Great Again (MHGA)?
