Honduran and Nepalese migrants sue Trump administration for ending protected status program
by Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Feb 12, 2019
3 minutes
Immigrant rights advocates have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to end humanitarian protections for more than 100,000 people from Honduras and Nepal.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on behalf of six immigrants with temporary protected status and two U.S. citizens who are children of TPS beneficiaries. Tuesday morning, hundreds of immigrants and their families, along with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., gathered in front of the White House to demand permanent residency for TPS
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