For Immediate Release // Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Contact: Armando Carmona, National TPS Alliance, 323-250-3018, Armando@ndlon.org; ACLU SoCal Communications, (213) 977-5252, communications@aclusocal.org BREAKING: DHS Submits Plan to Abide by Judge’s Order Blocking TPS Terminations TPS Holders Vow to Continue Fighting for Long-Term Protections in Wake of Temporary Reprieve from the Court for Hundreds of Thousands…
On Friday morning, a broad coalition of Orange County neighborhood, student, immigrant and civil rights organizations denounced O.C. Sheriff Sandra Hutchens and Undersheriff Don Barnes for siding with President’s Trump’s anti-immigrant policies and for seeking to expand ICE’s capacity to separate families in the county.
Today, federal district judge Edward Chen issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s termination of legal status for beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan. The Trump Administration had terminated the legal status for over 300,000 people from these countries who have lived legally in the United States for years or decades—with the earliest terminations due November 2.