{"id":5208,"date":"2018-05-04T19:24:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T23:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawyerscom.org\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2019-01-04T19:39:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:39:25","slug":"federal-court-challenge-to-trump-administrations-honduras-tps-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/our-impact\/immigrant-rights\/federal-court-challenge-to-trump-administrations-honduras-tps-termination\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Challenge to Trump Administration&#8217;s Honduras TPS Termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CIVIL RIGHTS AND IMMIGRANT JUSTICE GROUPS\u00a0<\/strong><strong>ANNOUNCE FEDERAL COURT CHALLENGE TO\u00a0<\/strong><strong>TRUMP ADMINISTRATION\u2019S TERMINATION\u00a0<\/strong><strong>OF TPS FOR HONDURANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, in response to the Trump Administration\u2019s statement that it is terminating humanitarian protection for Honduran immigrants by rescinding the country\u2019s Temporary Protected Status (TPS), civil rights and immigrant justice organizations announced that they would immediately move to challenge the termination in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>In a currently pending federal lawsuit filed in February 2018, the <strong>Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice<\/strong> is seeking to halt previously announced TPS terminations for Haiti and El Salvador. The suit was filed on behalf of <strong>Centro Presente<\/strong>, an immigrants\u2019 rights organization, as well as individual TPS recipients.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Lawyers\u2019 Committee<\/strong> and <strong>Centro Presente<\/strong> announced today that they would <strong>immediately move to amend their lawsuit to challenge today\u2019s termination of TPS for Honduras.<\/strong> They described the Trump Administration\u2019s newest action as an\u00a0escalation of the federal government\u2019s hateful, harmful, and heinous actions targeting immigrants of color for discriminatory and disgraceful unconstitutional treatment. The groups noted that Hondurans make up a substantial and important part of our communities in Massachusetts, and called the Trump Administration\u2019s announcement today a continuation of illegally discriminatory conduct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the Trump Administration continues to terminate humanitarian protections to our immigrant communities, we are left with only one explanation for its actions: discrimination,&#8221; said <strong>Iv\u00e1n Espinoza-Madrigal<\/strong>, the Executive Director at the Lawyers&#8217; Committee. &#8220;We will not stand for immigration policies that violate our Constitution, core American values, and fundamental human rights principles,&#8221; added Espinoza-Madrigal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our communities continue to be rocked to the core with every new action by this racist administration,\u201d said <strong>Patricia Montes<\/strong>, Executive Director of Centro Presente. \u201cHonduras is not ready to receive and reintegrate immigrants who are being deported from the US and other countries like M\u00e9xico. Every year one hundred thousand Hondurans leave their country due to the level of extreme violence they confront daily and additionally, this year, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean declared that Honduras is the poorest country in Latin America displacing Haiti.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The federal lawsuit,\u00a0<em>Centro Presente et al. v. Trump et al<\/em>., is currently pending before Judge Denise Casper, in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Centro Presente is holding a <strong>rally on Monday, May 7th at 11 AM in the Massachusetts State House<\/strong> to protest the ongoing anti-immigrant actions of the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TPS-Amended-Complaint-As-Filed-.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">TPS Amended-Complaint-As-Filed<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIVIL RIGHTS AND IMMIGRANT JUSTICE GROUPS\u00a0ANNOUNCE FEDERAL COURT CHALLENGE TO\u00a0TRUMP ADMINISTRATION\u2019S TERMINATION\u00a0OF TPS FOR HONDURANS Today, in response to the Trump Administration\u2019s statement that it is terminating humanitarian protection for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyersforcivilrights.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}