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Making matters worse, that statement is just one among a torrent of similar racist statements that Secretary Noem, President Trump, and members of the Trump campaign and administration have made to attack and marginalize nonwhite immigrants generally, and the Venezuelan TPS community in particular,
The Secretary’s decisions also were motivated at least in part by racial animus, in contravention of the Fifth Amendment,
During President Trump’s first term, every federal district court to consider the question found ‘evidence that President Trump harbors an animus against non-white, non-European aliens which influenced his (and thereby the Secretary’s) decision to end the TPS designation[s]’ for El Salvador, Haiti, Sudan, and Nicaragua in 2017 and 2018,
These actions have the effect of robbing 600,000 Venezuelan TPS holders of the right to live and work in this country for the next 18 months,
The Trump administration’s decision to vacate and rescind Temporary Protective Status for Venezuela represents a major departure from our nation’s promise of equal protection. At its core, the decision is racially motivated, as reflected by numerous statements from the president and his administration denigrating people from the country,
Harold Solis, co-legal director of Make the Road New York, said in the statement Thursday This unconstitutional action forces nearly 600,000 Venezuelans and their families currently living in the U.S. with TPS protection into the untenable position of potentially being forced to return to a country experiencing what has been described as one of the worst humanitarian crises in the history of the Western Hemisphere,
the groups said in a statement Thursday afternoon This lawsuit is not just about me: it’s about every TPS holder who has built a life here, every parent fighting for their child’s future, and every family thrown into crisis overnight. We need the courts to intervene before it’s too late,
she said in the statement In Venezuela, the diplomatic community must reject these measures,
continued González Urrutia, who fled Venezuela under an arrest warrant after claiming victory in last July presidential elections and has denounced widespread fraud in the vote They have a duty, they have a duty,
added Machado, who remains in hiding but also joined the interview
