TPS for Venezuelans: What does it mean that a federal judge suspends its decision



Federal Judge Edward Chen, from the northern district of California, indefinitely suspended his decision on the temporary protection status (TPS) for more than 250,000 Venezuelan immigrantswhich expires on September 10.

From that date, This group will not have the protection of the TPS to continue residing in the United Statesso they are automatically at risk of being arrested by ICE agents and entering a deportation process.

According to a judge’s letter, Your decision is in pause While the ninth appeal circuit reviews a legal resource that seeks to reverse the cancellation of this immigration benefit, in this case for Venezuelans.

“Previously, the Court ordered the parties to present supplementary writings to determine if the resolution of the dismissal and summary sentence motions should be temporarily suspended, pending the decision of the ninth appeal circuit,” Chen wrote.

“The court has received and reviewed the supplementary writings of the parties and, therefore, Suspend the procedure until new order”, Announced in the document.

It should be remembered that the TPS for Venezuelan immigrants, which will be overcome on September 10, was appointed in 2021. And although there was a networks assignment in 2023 to extend the benefit, when Joe Biden was president, Donald Trump’s administration annulled him completely in April of this year.

Immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua will lose their TPS on September 8

APART OF SEPTEMBER 8, According to the citizenship and immigration service (USCIS)more than 70,000 immigrants will lose the validity of their temporal protection status (TPS).

This is 72,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans that were protected with a temporary residence in the United States, since the passage of Hurricane Mitch in 1999.

At the end of July, a federal judge decided Extend the TPS (until November) for about 60,000 immigrants from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua. However, A federal judge in San Francisco ruled in favor of Trump and decided to cancel that protection.

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