The plaintiffs argued that the Trump administration displayed racial animosity towards non-white and non-European peoples with its termination of TPS designations, which were put into effect as early as 2017-2018.
While the district court agreed that “President Trump expressed racial animus against “nonwhite, non-European” immigrants, and that the White House influenced the TPS termination decisions,” it was unable to cite direct “evidence linking the President’s animus to the TPS terminations.
This does not mean that starting Sep. 14, all 400,000 immigrants will be immediately swept up and deported, however. The Trump administration will be maintaining protections until March 5, 2021. An additional extension will be granted to people from El Salvador to November 2021.
ACLU to “seek further review” of the court of appeal’s ruling
The case is not over, however, as the plaintiffs can request to take it before an 11-judge panel to debate the case. There even is the possibility of the Supreme Court.
