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            Immigrants Sue US over End to Temporary Protected Status



            By SUDHIN THANAWALA
            AMY  TAXIN,  Associated
            Press
            SAN  FRANCISCO  (AP)  —
            The    Trump    administra-
            tion’s  decision  to  end  a
            program  that  lets  immi-
            grants  from  four  countries
            live  and  work  legally  in
            the U.S. was motivated by
            racism and leaves the im-
            migrants’  American  born
            children  with  an  “impos-
            sible  choice,”  according
            to a federal lawsuit filed on
            Monday.
            Nine  immigrants  and  five
            children filed the suit in fed-
            eral court in San Francisco
            to reinstate temporary pro-
            tected  status  for  people
            from  El  Salvador,  Haiti,  Ni-
            caragua and Sudan.
            The  status  is  granted  to
            countries ravaged by nat-
            ural disasters or war.
            It  lets  citizens  of  those
            countries remain in the U.S.
            until the situation improves   Emi MacLean, attorney with National Day Laborers Organizing Network, from left, stands next to Crista Ramos, Ramos’ mother
            back home.                   Cristina Morales, from El Salvador, Sherika Blanc, from Haiti, and Mazin Ahmed, from Sudan, at a news conference announcing a
            The lawsuit — at least the   lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to end a program that lets immigrants live and work legally in the United
            third  challenging  the  ad-  States outside of a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Monday, March 12, 2018. Ramos, Morales, Blanc and Ahmed are among
            ministration’s  decision  to   the plaintiffs alleging the decision to end temporary protected status for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan was racially
            end  temporary  protected    motivated.
            status  —  cites  President                                                                                                  (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
            Donald Trump’s vulgar lan-   rican countries.             to  make  sure  that  we  say  valo, executive director of  Resource Center.
            guage  during  a  meeting    “They did it because of xe-  it  loudly  so  that  everyone  the  immigrant  advocacy
            in January to describe Af-   nophobia,  and  we  need  knows,”  said  Martha  Are-     group,  Central  American            Continued on Page 5
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