NAACP Legal Defense Fund sues over Trumps decision to rescind protected status for Haitians

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Source: PBS News Hour

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a racial discrimination lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security, the current head of the agency, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and the former acting head of the agency, Elaine C. Duke, over the Trump administration’s decision to rescind Temporary Protected Status for Haitian immigrants.

The lawsuit, which the group filed in the U.S. District Court in Maryland, argues that the agency and its leaders’ move “discriminates against immigrants of color” and asks the court to void the decision and reinstate the status for thousands of Haitians. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which is a separate organization from the NAACP, is representing the NAACP and its Haitian members and says the the Department of Homeland Security took “irrational and discriminatory government action, denying Haitian immigrants their right to due process and equal protection under the Fifth Amendment.”

“Governmental decisions that target people based on racial discrimination violate our Constitution,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, President and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in a statement. “The decision by the Department of Homeland Security to rescind TPS status for Haitian immigrants was infected by racial discrimination. Every step taken by the Department to reach this decision reveals that far from a rational and fact-based determination, this decision was driven by calculated, determined and intentional discrimination against Haitian immigrants.”

To make its case, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund references in the lawsuit President Donald Trump’s alleged derogatory comments about Haitians and about limiting immigrants from the island nation to increase immigration from European countries.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/naacp-sues-over-trumps-decision-to-rescind-protected-status-for-haitians

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1. Trump doesn't care

if what he is doing is legal or not as long as his base eats it up. Trump is just Making America White Again.