Judge: 'Noem complains that unlawful immigrants strain enforcement. Her answer, turn 300k Haitiains illegal overnight'

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Rachel Maddow: Noem's coarse tweet comes back to bite her in blistering ruling on protections for Haitians

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, mimicking Donald Trump's boorishness expressed her thoughts on immigrants from certain countries in coarse terms on Twitter. Those words would come back to bite her when they were cited in a blistering ruling by a judge who did not see her effort to revoke the temporary protected status of over 300,000 Haitian immigrants as being done in good faith for good reasons. Rachel Maddow reports.

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So, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, posted this on social media late last year, swears included. She posted, quote,



This was less than a month at the after the Trump administration had announced they were revoking the legal status of immigrants from Haiti to this country. That's more than 300 ,000 people from Haiti who live and work in this country legally here under a legal designation called temporary protected status. The Trump administration announced they were going to revoke that legal status, and it was going to be effective at midnight Tuesday this week.

And just think about the practical impact of that. This is a huge number of people. We're talking about more than 300,000 people who are here in this country...

LEGALLY, BUT AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT, THEY WERE SUDDENLY AND IMMEDIATELY GOING TO BECOME ILLEGAL. THEY WERE GOING TO BECOME THEREFORE IN THE EYES OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, IN THE EYES OF ICE THEY WERE GOING TO BECOME IMMEDIATELY
ELIGIBLE FOR ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT.
ANS DEPORTATION BY ICE (VIOLENTLY AND WITHOUT REGARD FOR THEIR RIGHTS LIKE THEY WERE DANGEROUS ANIMALS INSTEAD OF HUMAN BEINGS).

The sudden ending of that temporary protected status for more than 300 ,000 people was challenged in the courts
and in a buzzer beater, the judge in the case just headed it off just one day before the deadline. The judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from doing what they wanted to do. People from Haiti who are here under TPS will be able to continue to live and work in this country while the case is being fully litigated.

But I want you to know, the reason I think this is worth knowing about is because of the language of the ruling. In the ruling on this case, the judge just absolutely excoriates the Trump administration. This is from the ruling, quote,

"President Trump has referred to Haiti as a bleephole country, suggested Haitians probably have AIDS and complained that Haitian immigration is, quote, like a death wish for our country. He has also promoted the false conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants were eating the pets of the people of Springfield, Ohio. He stated, quote, Why is it we only take people from bleephole countries, right? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden? Just a few. Let us have a few from Denmark. It is not a coincidence, the judge says, that Haiti's population is 95 % black while Norway's is over 90% white."

"Secretary Noem complains of strains, unlawful immigrants place on our immigration enforcement system. Her answer, turn 352 ,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed, lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our health care system. Secretary Noem's answer, turn the insured into the uninsured.This approach is many things. In the public interest is not one of them."

Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to non-white immigrants. The judge says, quote, this seems substantially likely.

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Judge blocks end of TPS for Haitians as Springfield braced for impact

Reyes' 83-page decision says the Trump administration, particularly Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, predetermined that TPS for Haitians would be revoked without researching what that would mean for the more than 300,000 people legally residing in the United States.

"There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table," Reyes wrote. "Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side — or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side — or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter)."

Reyes wrote in her ruling that the administration's own attorneys confirmed Noem had made no effort to consult with the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, the Department of State or Congress before deciding to end the status. Reyes includes a portion of an exchange from a January hearing where she questioned the administration's attorneys about how Noem consulted with other agencies.

The answer: a single email between a DHS official and someone in the State Department.

"Her 'national interest' analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so," Reyes wrote. "And though she states that the analysis must include 'economic considerations,' she ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy."

Reyes' ruling also cited an advisory to Americans from the State Department that says "'Do not travel to Haiti for any reason," which the judge wrote "does not exactly scream ... suitable for return."

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