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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 13 March 2018

Immigrants sue US over end to temporary protected status

Continued from Front according to plaintiffs in
the case filed by the Ameri-
Arevalo spoke at a rally can Civil Liberties Union of
to announce the lawsuit Southern California and
outside the federal court- other immigrant advo-
house in San Francisco that cates.
was attended by some of The children face the “im-
the plaintiffs and dozens of possible choice” of leav-
demonstrators, some car- ing their country with their
rying signs that read, “Let parents or staying without
Our People Stay.” them, according to the suit.
One of the plaintiffs, Cristina “These American children
Morales, said she came to should not have to choose
the U.S. in 1993 at the age between their country and
of 12 after fleeing El Salva- their family,” Ahilan Arula-
dor to escape domestic vi- nantham, advocacy and
olence. She received tem- legal director of the ACLU
porary protected status in of Southern California, said
2001 and now works as an in a statement.
after-school teacher in the It’s the latest lawsuit filed
San Francisco Bay Area. against the Trump admin-
She was accompanied at istration over its crackdown
the rally by her 14-year- on immigration. A case
old daughter, Crista Ra- Mazin Ahmed, from Sudan, speaks at a news conference announcing a lawsuit against the Trump filed last month by Hai-
administration over its decision to end a program that lets immigrants live and work legally in the
mos, who along with her United States outside of a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Monday, March 12, 2018. Ahmed is tian and Salvadoran im-
11-year-old son, Diego Ra- one of the plaintiffs alleging the decision to end temporary protected status for El Salvador, Haiti, migrants in Massachusetts
mos, are U.S. citizens. Nicaragua and Sudan was racially motivated. also alleges the decision to
“I don’t want the govern- (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) end temporary protected
ment to split my family she has nothing to go back The lawsuit names the U.S. migrants could face de- status was racially motivat-
and to lose my home, my to in El Salvador. Department of Homeland portation because of the ed. The NAACP has filed a
friends and the opportu- “If I pay taxes, health insur- Security as a defendant. change in policy, and they separate lawsuit in Mary-
nity for a good education,” ance, my house and the The department declined have more than 200,000 land on behalf of Haitian
Crista said. education of my children, to comment on pending American children who risk immigrants who received
Morales, 37, her voice quiv- what I have done wrong,” litigation. being uprooted from their temporary protected sta-
ering with emotion, said she said. More than 200,000 im- communities and schools, tus. q

Officials tight-lipped in attack on California veterans home

Associated Press veterans home campus Law enforcement officials cials could not immediate- Gonzales Shushereba was
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) about 50 miles (85 kilome- did not respond to ques- ly say why. seven months pregnant.
— Authorities in Northern ters) north of San Francisco tions throughout the week- Executive Director Chris- She was married a year
California have so far been on Friday, then let some end about what led to tine Loeber, 48; Clinical ago and was supposed
tight-lipped about why a people leave, but kept the Wong being dismissed from Director Jennifer Golick, to travel to Washington,
former Army rifleman may three women. the program or whether of- 42; and Jennifer Gonzales D.C., with her husband this
have killed three women Wong, whose military re- ficials had alerted police Shushereba, 32, a clinical weekend to celebrate their
after a daylong siege at cords show he served in Af- or others to any concerns psychologist with the San anniversary.
a veterans home in Napa ghanistan from April 2011 to about his mental health af- Francisco Department of “Jennifer and her col-
County wine country. March 2012, was enrolled in ter he was removed from Veterans Affairs Healthcare leagues died doing the
Albert Wong, 36, slipped The Pathway Home’s veter- the program. Records also System were remembered work they were so passion-
into a going-away party an treatment program until show a state-issued secu- as immensely talented ate about — helping those
for two employees of The he was recently expelled, rity permit Wong had for a women who cared deeply in critical need,” her hus-
Pathway Home on the according to a relative of 9mm firearm was canceled about veterans suffering band, T.J. Shushereba said
campus of the Yountville one of the women. in October, but state offi- from post-traumatic stress. in a statement.q