SPANK!! JUDGE BLOCKS ENDING OF TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR REFUGEES FROM YEMEN JUST DAYS BEFORE THEY WERE TO LOSE THEIR STATUS
Yessss! Just days before refugees from Yemen were due to lose their temporary protected status, despite it being *very* clear that there is still a very dangerous situation going on in Yemen, a Federal judge has put on hold the action that Kristi Noem took to end their TPS status (yes, I realize that’s redundant, much like “ATM machine”, but it makes it more readable – fun fact: where I live there is a street called Table Mesa, also redundant.)
Judge Donald Ho observed that Noem had violated the… yep, some of you guessed it… Administrative Procedures Act (APA), which required her to “do a periodic review of a country’s relevant conditions, and which includes consultation with appropriate agencies regarding those conditions,” before making a decision to terminate TPS for people from a given country.
Said the Court that *had* Noem taken the time to conduct the required consultations “Perhaps, in considering information about whether the conditions that gave rise to Yemen’s TPS designation – namely, the presence of ongoing armed conflict prevents the safe return of Yemeni nationals – persist today, the interlocutors would have grappled with the fact that State has classified Yemen at the highest threat level in its travel advisory – that is, “Level 4 – Do Not Travel”, due to, among other things, “terrorism, unrest, . . . and landmines.”
Judge Ho’s 36-page analysis and order (included for Notes from the Front members) concludes by once more showing us that the courts are paying attention to what these administration officials are saying in public, hoisting them on their own petards. In his conclusion Judge Ho quotes Noem from a public statement she made about refugees from Haiti, when she said – yes really – that they are all “killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.” They are not, says Judge Ho.
He then paused Noem’s ending of TPS for people from Yemen while their lawsuit – *a class action lawsuit* – makes its way through the courts.
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