[20190318]LSB10215_联邦地区法院禁止国土安全部终止临时保护身份 .pdf

CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Federal District Court Enjoins the Department of Homeland Security from Terminating Temporary Protected Status Updated March 18, 2019 Update: In February 2019, several months after this Sidebar was originally published, a lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) decisions to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for Nepal and Honduras. Like the plaintiffs in Ramos v. Nielsen, the plaintiffs in the new lawsuit (Bhattarai v. Nielsen) argued that DHSs decisions to end the TPS designations for Nepal and Honduras inexplicably departed from the agencys longstanding policies governing TPS determinations, and that the agencys actions were motivated by racial and national origin discrimination. On March 12, 2019, the federal district court granted the parties stipulated request to stay the proceedings pending adjudication of the Governments appeal of the courts preliminary injunction issued in Ramos v. Nielsen. Further, the Government has agreed not to terminate the TPS designations for Nepal