A federal judge blocked on Friday the use of the accelerated deportation invoked by the government of the US president, Donald Trump, to expedite the Immigrant country expulsion that were left on probation within the US.
The magistrate Jia M. Cobsfrom the Columbia District Court, ordered the White House stop the summary deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants that they had managed to enter the US fleeing persecution in their countries of origin.
The ruling is given in response to a lawsuit filed by the Human Rights of Immigrants (Chirla), the Undocublack network (UBN) and Casa alleging that the Executive is using a “deeply defective” deportation process, after annulling last March a program of the Age of the former President Joe Biden (2021-2025) to reduce the entry of foreigners through the southern border of the country.
The complaint, presented in the name of several immigrants who were allowed to enter the United States under the operation allies Welcome or the program sponsored for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV), asked the court to stop the expulsions of immigrants without giving access to an audience and legal representation.
In his order, Judge Cobs said that the case raises “a Equity question”, Where immigrants exposed to accelerated deportation entered the country according to the established rules, but now, the government has changed them despite the fact that the statutory law“ prohibits ”to do it to the Executive.
The magistrate also questioned the tactics used by the current administration to expel immigrants and who are heading to imitate that of the nations where they fled.
“Will they be summarily expelled from a country, when they are arrested in control posts and the departure of the courts, often by agents dressed in civilians without explanations or positions, can they look more and more to the countries they tried to escape?” Cobs wrote.
The blockade of accelerated deportations represents another setback for the Trump government, which has raised its Immigrant arrest and deportation goal at 800 per day.
Angelica Salas, director of Chirla, applauded the ruling in a statement and stressed that the plaintiff immigrants “did absolutely everything that the Government asked them” to have the opportunity to start a new stage in the United States.
“They deserve the dignity of a day in court and this lawsuit seeks to ensure that they receive it,” said the activist.
Last March, the White House announced the Derogation of the migratory benefit known as CHNVwhich has allowed some 530,000 immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua to reside and work temporarily in the country, after being endorsed by a sponsor.
The DHS argued that the program “does not provide a significant public benefit, has not been necessary to reduce illegal immigration levels, does not fulfill its planned purposes and is incompatible with the foreign policy objectives” of the White House.
The covered ones had until April 24 to achieve another benefit or are exposed to deportation.
Ama Frympong, legal director of Casa, warned in a statement that the fight “is far” to end and will continue to fight in cut so that the temporal order is permanent.
The White House already faces two other demands for the cancellation of the CHNV program.
