NY attorney general defends TPS for Haitians as court fight continues

NY attorney general defends TPS for Haitians as court fight continues

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James has joined a coalition of 17 other state attorneys general in urging a federal appeals court to preserve Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants. In an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, James and the coalition ask the court to reject the federal government’s effort to lift a lower court order that temporarily blocked…

Attorney General Raoul Urges Court To Preserve Block On Trump Administration’s Unlawful Termination Of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status Designation

CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in Miot, et al. v. Trump in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, opposing the Trump administration’s effort to overturn a lower court’s decision to postpone the termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation while litigation on the termination continues. “Ending the vital protections provided…