Bloomberg Law
March 13, 2018, 10:34 AM UTC

Case Over Immigrants’ Temporary Status Cites US Citizen Kids

Laura D. Francis
Laura D. Francis
Reporter

The Trump administration is facing yet another lawsuit over its decision to end temporary protected status for foreign nationals of certain countries.

The lawsuit expected to be filed in federal district court in California March 12 challenges the Department of Homeland Security’s termination of TPS for nationals of El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan. Like two other lawsuits filed already in federal district court, the case cites President Donald Trump’s reported comment about Haiti and African nations being “shithole countries” as a basis for claiming that the decision was racially discriminatory.

But unlike the other cases, it’s the first to ...

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