A federal judge in California has temporarily halted the Trump administration’s efforts to suspend the legal status of nearly 300,000 Haitian, Nicaraguan, Sudanese and Salvadoran immigrants who fled to the U.S. to escape violence and disaster in their native countries.
In his decision Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen of San Francisco cited what he called substantial evidence proving President Donald Trump’s administration lacked “any explanation or justification” to end the temporary protected status of immigrants from the aforementioned countries.