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50+ States, Cities, Counties Urge Trump to Reinstate TPS Humanitarian Safeguards

Yesterday, states and local jurisdictions filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of plaintiffs in the case of Ramos v. Nielsen, which challenges the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 300,000 people from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Documents Reveal How Trump's Racist "America First" Agenda Pressured DHS to End Humanitarian Program​

SAN FRANCISCO — On Thursday, nine holders of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and five of their U.S. citizen children filed a request for a preliminary injunction to halt the terminations of TPS for Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, and El Salvador. In their court filing, plaintiffs disclosed for the first
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

ACLU: Army Specialist Yea Ji Sea Has Been Granted Citizenship

LOS ANGELES — Army Specialist Yea Ji Sea, who was honorably discharged earlier this month after four years of meritorious service received notice today from the U.S. Department of Justice that her long-delayed application for citizenship has been approved.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

ACLU to Argue in Court for Decision on Army Veteran Yea Ji Sea's Citizenship Application

LOS ANGELES — Yea Ji Sea, 29, a Korean-American woman recently given an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army after four years of meritorious service, is in danger of being deported because the Trump administration has not acted upon her 2016 citizenship application. At a hearing in federal court
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

ACLU Sues to Obtain Citizenship for Decorated Soldier Discharged by Army

LOS ANGELES — Yea Ji Sea, 29, who has lived in the U.S. since she was a child, was so highly respected by her supervisors in the U.S. Army that one of them wrote she "volunteers for deployments willing to die for a country she loves... I would trust her with my life and (she) deserves citizenship
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

ACLU Asks Court to Halt Deportation of Man Unlawfully Arrested at Greyhound Station

LOS ANGELES — The immigration agents who detained and handcuffed Edgar Solano as he waited for a bus in Indio knew only three things about him: his name, where he lived, and that he looked Latino. That was enough for them. But it's not enough for the Constitution.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights