April 11, 2019
A New York federal judge on Thursday halted the Trump administration's revocation of temporary immigration protections for some 59,000 Haitians living in the U.S. since a 2010 earthquake, saying a group of refugees that sued over the move is likely to win its case.
January 10, 2019
Haitians suing the Trump administration over the revocation of their temporary protected status and government lawyers playing defense both took a drubbing by a Brooklyn federal judge on Thursday, as he called the the president's alleged racism "a sideshow" but thundered in disbelief at part of the government's argument.
January 07, 2019
Haitians who sued over the Trump administration's decision to end their special immigration status told a Brooklyn federal judge on Monday they had evidence showing the decision was rooted in anti-immigrant politics and the president's anti-Haitian racism, not the law.
November 13, 2018
A Brooklyn federal judge declined to toss a suit Tuesday claiming racism motivated the Trump administration to revoke the temporary protected status of 50,000 Haitians in the wake of an earthquake, giving parties only two months to prepare for trial.
October 10, 2018
A New York federal court should toss a case challenging the Trump administration's decision to end temporary protected status for Haitians because the move was not capricious or arbitrary, the U.S. government argued Tuesday.
September 19, 2018
A group of 17 states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief in New York federal court Wednesday backing a legal challenge to a decision by President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to end temporary protected status for Haitians.
March 15, 2018
A nonprofit group of lawyers who represent immigrants hit President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with a lawsuit in New York federal court Thursday challenging the decision to end temporary protected status for Haitians, saying the move was motivated by racial animus.