DHS filed a lawsuit with the deportation protection of Afghans and Cameroon
Immigration defenders sue on behalf of the Afghans and Cameroonians who will lose protection from deportation after the DHS ends that it plans to allow their temporary protected status (TPS).
“Each designation was made for the first time in 2022, in response to prolonged armed conflicts, hunger and human rights that suffer from violations in both countries. Each designation was extended less than 18 months ago for similar reasons,” Citizens who help and professionals, also known as Casa Inc., wrote. , In the lawsuit.
The Ministry of National Security announced the plans last month, but it has not officially announced this step in the federal registry as required.
“The TPS appointment cannot be ended in this way,” says the lawsuit. “Instead, Congress has established a strict operation to end TPS nams, which requires Minister Nayym to publish a notice of its decision in the federal registry at least 60 days before the end of the current appointment period.”
They added that the official process helps “provide certainty to the beneficiaries of TPS and the organized transition in the event of an end.”
They wrote: “The statute also describes what happens when the Secretary fails to follow up on this process: TPS is automatically extended for at least six months,” they wrote.
The Ministry of National Security did not want to request the comment.
The group also said that the decision was partially taken based on the “racist racist”, pointing to a series of comments from President Trump and Minister of National Security Ministry Christie Naim, as well as plans to raise protection for immigrants from non -white countries, with the opening of the refugee program to Africans in South Africa.
The lawsuit argues that both Afghanistan and Cameroon maintain the dangerous conditions that have sparked the Biden administration to appoint TPS to citizens already in the United States
Afghanistan is still under the rule of the Taliban and conditions have deteriorated in the country since the American withdrawal in 2021, including a large -scale food insecurity.
Many of nearly 80,000 Afghans who came to the United States after Kabul fell, either securing asylum or a special immigrant visa granted to those who helped US military efforts there.
But many of them are still protected under TPS, and DHS previously estimated that nearly 14,600 Afghans will be eligible under the latest redesign.
They have estimated under 8000 of Cameroon to be protected under the reintegration of the latter, referring to the armed conflict in maintaining protection.
“Since 2014, the ongoing armed conflict between the Cameroon government and the NGOs in the far northern region, specifically Boko Haram and West Africa Province (ISWAP), has led to killings, kidnapping, displacement, and the destruction of civil construction,” wrote the return administration in 2023.
While granting TPS requires a large review of the conditions in the specific country, the cancellation of protection also requires that “it no longer continues to meet the conditions of appointment.”
Casa wrote: “In a flagrant contradiction with the long process described above, Minister Nayyim decided to end TPS names for Afghanistan and Cameroon within less than three months of taking office.”
“Minister Naim could not have participated in the model review process during the short time frame for a period of three months at most, and any consultation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or other government agencies was at best.”
