by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 19 – Days before the expiration of Temporary Protected Status in the US for people from Syria, a court hearing was held on a request to enjoin the termination, before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Katherine Polk Failla. Inner City Press covered it live, on BlueSky here
Judge Failla: The Biden administration allowed extensions on Haiti and Venezuela. I'm not sure how I can consider what's happened in Venezuela and Haiti except as a history of this Administration's treatment of TPS. Plaintiffs' lawyer: There's South Sudan... The Vice President says there would be no more TPS writ large only case by case... The Secretary has terminated TPS each time it has come up. That is not an objective review. There are other deviations, in this Trump administration
Plaintiffs' lawyer: These are no consultation on Nicaragua, Nepal, Venezuela and Cameroon. Perhaps others. There's emails that termination determination had been made on Nicaragua, no letter. On Venezuela the letter was late
Plaintiffs' lawyer: This was a pre-determined decision, not in accord with the statute.
On November 19 Judge Failla read out her lengthy ruling - Inner City Press again live tweeted on Bluesky, blocked from its main X account with no help from X Support. Once she ruled - to keep Syria TPS from ending Friday - she denied the AUSA's request for a two week stay, saying she hoped he understood.
More on Substack here
The case is Doe v. Noem, et al., 1:25-cv-8686 (Failla)
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