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When Russia invaded Ukraine, leaving her stuck in the U.S., she worried about her children and grandchildren back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Volvach, 62, tearfully told The Associated Press this week about her efforts to rescue her family, the Biden administration announced humanitarian relief that could keep thousands of Ukrainians in the U.S. without fear of deportation to their embattled homeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you,” Volvach said in English last Thursday as the news was relayed to her through her Russian-speaking friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are happy I am here,” she said in Russian. “They are not worried about me. I am worried about them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volvach’s reaction reflects emotions many Ukrainians who are currently in the U.S. may feel about the decision to grant the temporary protected status, or TPS, they’d been seeking since the Russian invasion, which marks the largest conventional military action in Europe since World War II. The invasion has caused a humanitarian crisis that has driven more than 1.2 million people to flee Ukraine since the fighting began, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nika Rudenko, Ukrainian national and student\"]'My mental state is not very stable and it's just very difficult to keep up with work and at the same time to try to do something for my country.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refugee advocates applauded the move after more than 177 organizations signed a letter sent to the administration requesting the relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the federal program, Ukrainians can remain in the country for up to 18 months. In order to be eligible, individuals would have to have been in the U.S. by last Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citizens from a dozen countries are already in the United States under the TPS program, which is designated for people fleeing ongoing armed conflict, environmental disasters or extraordinary and temporary conditions. The countries include Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Haiti and Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 75,100 Ukrainians are expected to be eligible, according to the latest estimates from the Department of Homeland Security. They include about 4,000 people with pending asylum claims and many others who entered the U.S. legally as tourists, business visitors or students on visas that have expired or are about to expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PJ Moore, executive director of World Relief’s office in Memphis, Tennessee, said the organization has helped about 18,000 Ukrainians settle in the U.S. in the past 18 years, with most of them residing in California and Washington state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ukrainian national Nika Rudenko says she’ll consider seeking TPS if she decides to take leave from college and can’t meet the requirements of her student visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rudenko, a 20-year-old Harvard University sophomore, says she stopped attending classes after the invasion started last week because she’s worried about her family, who remain in hiding in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Rudenko said she’s also trying to raise awareness on campus about the situation.[aside postID=\"news_11907312,arts_13909903,news_11906380\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“My mental state is not very stable and it’s just very difficult to keep up with work and at the same time to try to do something for my country,” Rudenko said. “It feels very weird to understand that everyone else’s lives just carry on, but my life has completely changed. People just cannot feel what you’re going through, and it hurts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Rudenko’s pain could be eased a bit by gaining protected status, it appears Volodymyr Bobko’s mother-in-law is not as fortunate. Bobko, 31, said he and his wife had talked about the potential for seeking TPS for his wife’s mother, who arrived Thursday from Ukraine via Poland — two days after the Tuesday cutoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobko, a resident of Boxborough, Massachusetts, came from Ukraine in 2016 and is a green card holder. He says his wife’s mother has a tourist visa and had booked a flight months ago to help with the birth of the couple’s second child later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobko says asking his mother-in-law to stay longer than planned would likely be a tall order, in any case. Her husband and other family members are still in western Ukraine, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She wants to get back, maybe in a couple of months, but we don’t know yet what the situation is going to be in a couple of months,” Bobko said. “Right now, she’s still thinking she’s still going to live in Ukraine because it’s a beautiful country and she has a lot of friends and families over there.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Biden administration granted temporary protected status for Ukrainians, which could keep thousands of them in the U.S. without fear of deportation to their embattled homeland. 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With this new court ruling, more than 400,000 immigrants could be deported, including Crista’s mom, as early as next year. But Crista vows to keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guest\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/fjhabvala\">Farida Jabvala Romero,\u003c/a> immigration reporter for KQED\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode originally aired in February 2019. 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Wolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Plaintiff Cristina Morales, a TPS holder originally from El Salvador\"]'I feel angry, I feel frustrated. ... The fear of being separated from my family is so real, it’s so painful.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales, a teaching assistant from the Bay Area city of San Pablo, said she received the news that the court had sided with the Trump administration via text, while reading a book to a class of second graders over Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to swallow my feelings and go on with the lesson,” said Morales, 39. “I feel angry, I feel frustrated. ... The fear of being separated from my family is so real, it’s so painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 270,000 American children have parents with TPS, which allows people to legally live and work in the U.S. but does not offer a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest that immigration officials could rescind work permits for nationals of El Salvador is Nov. 5, 2021, said ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham. Immigrants from the other impacted countries would see their protections expire as soon as March 5, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838038\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crista Ramos sits at Marina Park in Richmond with her mother Cristina Morales, father Edgar Ramos and brother Diego on July 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>U.S. Has Offered Relief for Three Decades\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Congress created TPS in 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to noncitizens residing in the U.S. who couldn’t return safely to home countries that were ravaged by war or natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security designates the countries that are eligible for the protections, and can extend them after periodic review every six to 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants from El Salvador, a country with one of the world’s highest murder rates, have been eligible for the relief for nearly 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2017, the Trump administration announced a series of TPS terminations, arguing the protections were no longer needed because the original earthquakes and other conditions that led to the designations had been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump officials have extended the relief for those from Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, who represent about 2% of current TPS holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Appeals Court Sides With Trump Administration\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A group of impacted TPS holders and their U.S. citizen children sued in 2018 to keep their families together in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs argued in court that Trump officials had made an unexplained change to their approach for determining whether people with TPS could safely return to their home countries, in violation of federal rule-making laws. They also claimed the decisions to end the relief were motivated by Trump’s racism against non-white immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Circuit Judges Consuelo Callahan and Ryan Nelson disagreed with those arguments. They noted that past administrations designated and \u003ca href=\"https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20200401_RS20844_91460572a0f416f013d508c6afb7a68f60a29b80.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subsequently ended\u003c/a> the relief for nationals of 12 countries, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kuwait and Rwanda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Wilna Destin, TPS holder originally from Haiti\"]'We are not going to stop, we are going to keep fighting until we get what we deserve for our families, for our children.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callahan, an appointee of President George W. Bush, and Nelson, an appointee of President Trump, found the court didn’t have the authority to review the Department of Homeland Security conclusions on TPS, and that the plaintiffs lacked evidence linking Trump’s alleged discriminatory intent to the specific terminations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the record contains substantial evidence that White House officials sought to influence the Secretaries’ TPS decisions, and that the Secretaries sought and acted to conform their TPS decisions to the President’s immigration policy, we find these facts neither unusual nor improper,” wrote Callahan in the majority’s opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 40-page dissent, Judge Morgan Christen wrote that the court could decide on the issue and that plaintiffs had shown that DHS officials interpreted the TPS statute in a way that starkly differed from previous administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The consequences of the majority’s decision are monumental, but the majority’s reasoning is deeply flawed,” wrote Christen, an Obama appointee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a call with reporters, the ACLU’s Arulanantham, the top counsel for TPS holders in the case, said they would seek a review from a larger panel at the 9th Circuit and could also ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with DHS said the agency is “very pleased” with the court’s ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The circumstances that led to the temporary designation in each of the countries in question ... fundamentally changed, and DHS withdrew their TPS designations,” said the spokesperson. “These changes have been a landmark of DHS during the Trump administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appeals court decision officially covers TPS holders from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. But immigrants from Honduras and Nepal, who sued separately, are also included, after a legal agreement with government officials, said Arulanantham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838037\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838037\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crista Ramos walks through Marina Park in Richmond with her mother Cristina Morales, father Edgar Ramos and brother Diego on July 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Another Disaster’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wilna Destin, a plaintiff from Haiti who lives in Florida, said the court’s order came as a shock. She and her husband recently recovered from COVID-19, and now they are getting ready for several approaching hurricanes, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"immigration\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have coronavirus, we have hurricanes. Now for me this is another disaster for the TPS [community],” said Destin, the mother of two U.S. citizen children, one of whom is also a plaintiff. “It’s not fair for us and it’s very sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destin and other TPS holders vowed to continue to pressure Congress and an upcoming administration to keep the protections in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to stop, we are going to keep fighting until we get what we deserve for our families, for our children,” Destin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the House of Representatives passed the American Dream and Promise Act, introduced by Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-California, which would offer a path to U.S. citizenship to beneficiaries of TPS and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The U.S. Senate has not taken up the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bus with 20 TPS holders will travel to 54 cities, en route to Washington, D.C., stopping in San Francisco later this month, to call on Congress to save the protections, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/NorCalTPS/\">NorCal TPS Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Judges allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for most holders as early as next year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1600288645,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1250},"headData":{"title":"'So Painful': 400,000 Could Face Deportation After Appeals Court Ruling | KQED","description":"Judges allow the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for most holders as early as next year.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11838007 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11838007","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/09/15/so-painful-400000-could-face-deportation-after-appeals-court-ruling/","disqusTitle":"'So Painful': 400,000 Could Face Deportation After Appeals Court Ruling","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/5f9d0495-338a-4e56-bc80-ac3701102a9e/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11838007/so-painful-400000-could-face-deportation-after-appeals-court-ruling","audioDuration":97000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838218/tan-doloroso-400-mil-inmigrantes-podrian-ser-deportados-luego-del-fallo-a-favor-de-trump\">Leer en español\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 400,000 immigrants, most of whom have long lived in the United States, could lose humanitarian protections and be deported as early as next year after an appeals court ruled Monday in favor of the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of judges at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena dissolved a lower court’s order that had blocked immigration officials from ending a program called Temporary Protected Status for nationals of six countries: El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiff Cristina Morales, a TPS holder originally from El Salvador, has lived most of her life in the U.S. Both of her children were born in this country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11828006/bay-area-teen-awaits-ruling-on-humanitarian-protections-for-mom-and-other-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including 16-year-old Crista Ramos\u003c/a>, the lead plaintiff in the case, Ramos v. Wolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I feel angry, I feel frustrated. ... The fear of being separated from my family is so real, it’s so painful.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Plaintiff Cristina Morales, a TPS holder originally from El Salvador","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales, a teaching assistant from the Bay Area city of San Pablo, said she received the news that the court had sided with the Trump administration via text, while reading a book to a class of second graders over Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to swallow my feelings and go on with the lesson,” said Morales, 39. “I feel angry, I feel frustrated. ... The fear of being separated from my family is so real, it’s so painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 270,000 American children have parents with TPS, which allows people to legally live and work in the U.S. but does not offer a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest that immigration officials could rescind work permits for nationals of El Salvador is Nov. 5, 2021, said ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham. Immigrants from the other impacted countries would see their protections expire as soon as March 5, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838038\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43877_010_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crista Ramos sits at Marina Park in Richmond with her mother Cristina Morales, father Edgar Ramos and brother Diego on July 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>U.S. Has Offered Relief for Three Decades\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Congress created TPS in 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to noncitizens residing in the U.S. who couldn’t return safely to home countries that were ravaged by war or natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security designates the countries that are eligible for the protections, and can extend them after periodic review every six to 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants from El Salvador, a country with one of the world’s highest murder rates, have been eligible for the relief for nearly 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2017, the Trump administration announced a series of TPS terminations, arguing the protections were no longer needed because the original earthquakes and other conditions that led to the designations had been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump officials have extended the relief for those from Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, who represent about 2% of current TPS holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Appeals Court Sides With Trump Administration\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A group of impacted TPS holders and their U.S. citizen children sued in 2018 to keep their families together in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs argued in court that Trump officials had made an unexplained change to their approach for determining whether people with TPS could safely return to their home countries, in violation of federal rule-making laws. They also claimed the decisions to end the relief were motivated by Trump’s racism against non-white immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Circuit Judges Consuelo Callahan and Ryan Nelson disagreed with those arguments. They noted that past administrations designated and \u003ca href=\"https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20200401_RS20844_91460572a0f416f013d508c6afb7a68f60a29b80.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subsequently ended\u003c/a> the relief for nationals of 12 countries, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kuwait and Rwanda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We are not going to stop, we are going to keep fighting until we get what we deserve for our families, for our children.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Wilna Destin, TPS holder originally from Haiti","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callahan, an appointee of President George W. Bush, and Nelson, an appointee of President Trump, found the court didn’t have the authority to review the Department of Homeland Security conclusions on TPS, and that the plaintiffs lacked evidence linking Trump’s alleged discriminatory intent to the specific terminations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the record contains substantial evidence that White House officials sought to influence the Secretaries’ TPS decisions, and that the Secretaries sought and acted to conform their TPS decisions to the President’s immigration policy, we find these facts neither unusual nor improper,” wrote Callahan in the majority’s opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 40-page dissent, Judge Morgan Christen wrote that the court could decide on the issue and that plaintiffs had shown that DHS officials interpreted the TPS statute in a way that starkly differed from previous administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The consequences of the majority’s decision are monumental, but the majority’s reasoning is deeply flawed,” wrote Christen, an Obama appointee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a call with reporters, the ACLU’s Arulanantham, the top counsel for TPS holders in the case, said they would seek a review from a larger panel at the 9th Circuit and could also ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson with DHS said the agency is “very pleased” with the court’s ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The circumstances that led to the temporary designation in each of the countries in question ... fundamentally changed, and DHS withdrew their TPS designations,” said the spokesperson. “These changes have been a landmark of DHS during the Trump administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appeals court decision officially covers TPS holders from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. But immigrants from Honduras and Nepal, who sued separately, are also included, after a legal agreement with government officials, said Arulanantham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11838037\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11838037\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/RS43880_012_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crista Ramos walks through Marina Park in Richmond with her mother Cristina Morales, father Edgar Ramos and brother Diego on July 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>‘Another Disaster’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Wilna Destin, a plaintiff from Haiti who lives in Florida, said the court’s order came as a shock. She and her husband recently recovered from COVID-19, and now they are getting ready for several approaching hurricanes, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"immigration","label":"related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have coronavirus, we have hurricanes. Now for me this is another disaster for the TPS [community],” said Destin, the mother of two U.S. citizen children, one of whom is also a plaintiff. “It’s not fair for us and it’s very sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destin and other TPS holders vowed to continue to pressure Congress and an upcoming administration to keep the protections in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to stop, we are going to keep fighting until we get what we deserve for our families, for our children,” Destin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the House of Representatives passed the American Dream and Promise Act, introduced by Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-California, which would offer a path to U.S. citizenship to beneficiaries of TPS and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The U.S. Senate has not taken up the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bus with 20 TPS holders will travel to 54 cities, en route to Washington, D.C., stopping in San Francisco later this month, to call on Congress to save the protections, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/NorCalTPS/\">NorCal TPS Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11838007/so-painful-400000-could-face-deportation-after-appeals-court-ruling","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_1323","news_20202","news_22335"],"featImg":"news_11838010","label":"news"},"news_11828006":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11828006","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11828006","score":null,"sort":[1594299601000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-teen-awaits-ruling-on-humanitarian-protections-for-mom-and-other-immigrants","title":"Bay Area Teen Awaits Ruling on Humanitarian Protections for Mom and Other Immigrants","publishDate":1594299601,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Crista Ramos, 16, devoted her weekends to soccer practice and games around the Bay Area with her team, the Richmond Lionesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that was canceled due to the coronavirus. Now, Ramos spends her days at home in San Pablo, with her parents and 13-year-old brother. But far from regretting it, Ramos said she is grateful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are trying to look on the bright side of things,\" Ramos said, a high school junior who was born and raised in the Bay Area. \"The coronavirus has given us more time to be home, as a family. So we’ve had more time to do things together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos is painfully aware that her family may not be able to stay together. She is one of roughly 300,000 United States citizen children whose parents could face deportation if the Trump administration prevails in a legal fight over humanitarian protections known as Temporary Protected Status or TPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Ramos is the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/cases/ramos-v-nielsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ramos v. Nielsen\u003c/a>, aiming to stop the Trump administration from ending TPS for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20200401_RS20844_91460572a0f416f013d508c6afb7a68f60a29b80.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">400,000 immigrants\u003c/a> nationwide, including Ramos' mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to issue a ruling any day now on whether those TPS holders can continue to live and work in this country while the merits of the case are decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been waiting in this limbo of not knowing what's going to happen with our families,\" Ramos said. \"Now, we are getting more anxious because it's been months since the last court hearing, and we haven’t heard anything back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"temporary-protected-status\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to immigrants who couldn’t return safely to countries torn by war and natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security can designate a country for TPS for periods of six to 18 months, and extend the protections after periodic review. Immigrants from El Salvador who were already here when TPS was first granted, like Ramos' mother, have been eligible for the protections for 19 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting in 2017, the Trump administration terminated the protections for six countries: El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump officials claim TPS is no longer needed because the initial earthquakes and other conditions that led to the designations have been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During court hearings, plaintiff attorneys argued that past administrations looked more broadly at the potentially dangerous conditions of a country and whether it could safely absorb a large number of deportees, to determine whether to continue TPS for that country’s nationals in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in San Francisco issued an injunction, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694816/judge-in-san-francisco-could-preserve-humanitarian-immigrant-protections-for-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blocking\u003c/a> the administration from ending the program while the case is decided. Now Ramos and thousands of others are looking to the 9th Circuit to keep that injunction in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11828010\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crista Ramos spends time with her mother Cristina Morales, father Edgar Ramos and brother Diego at Marina Park in Richmond on July 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Ramos and her family are finding hope in another court ruling that favored hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration didn’t follow the law when it tried to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Supreme Court decision on DACA, it made me feel like I was the one who was winning the case,\" said Cristina Morales, 39, Crista’s mother and also a plaintiff in the TPS lawsuit. “Very strong. Very happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the DACA recipients, TPS plaintiffs argue that the Trump administration ended the relief unlawfully because officials failed to adequately consider the impact on the families, investments and jobs of so many people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s opinion should make it easier for lower courts to find that the government acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it revoked TPS, said Kevin Johnson, dean of the University of California, Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the DACA decision will have a very significant impact on the way that the 9th Circuit looks at this case,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Kevin Johnson, UC Davis School of Law\"]'I think the DACA decision will have a very significant impact on the way that the 9th Circuit looks at this case.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another argument shared by plaintiffs in both cases is that the Trump administration was motivated by racial animus against non-white immigrants. The Supreme Court majority said DACA plaintiffs lacked enough evidence to win on this “equal protection” claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Johnson believes Ramos and the other TPS plaintiffs have stronger evidence than the DACA recipients had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January of 2018, shortly after ending TPS for immigrants from El Salvador and Haiti, Trump referred to them as coming from “shithole countries,” in a meeting with lawmakers at the Oval Office. Trump also suggested he would prefer more immigrants from predominantly white countries such as Norway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That sounds like racial animus,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the 9th Circuit sides with the administration, impacted TPS holders would lose their work permits on Jan. 4, 2021. Four months after the appeals court rules, immigrants from Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan would completely lose their protections, while Salvadorans would have at least a year, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/dhs-extends-tps-documentation-six-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Homeland Security\u003c/a>. Haitians are also waiting on a ruling in a second lawsuit, but if they lose that as well, they would become deportable after 120 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ramos, and her brother, Diego, keeping their mother in the country has become even more important since last summer. Diego was diagnosed with a rare, slow-growing cancer, angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma, that is treated with surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diego has undergone three surgeries to remove tumors, and more could be needed, Ramos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Crista Ramos, plaintiff\"]'If my mom had to go back to El Salvador, she wouldn't be able to be here for her son. It'd be difficult, not only in terms of trauma, but his health now depends on it.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If my mom had to go back to El Salvador, she wouldn't be able to be here for her son,\" Ramos said. \"It'd be difficult, not only in terms of trauma, but his health now depends on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother’s illness has motivated Ramos to work even harder to find a lasting way for her family to stay together, such as joining a years-long battle to push Congress to grant TPS holders a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would do just that: the American Dream and Promise Act, introduced by Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA). But the Republican-controlled Senate has not taken it up yet, and Roybal-Allard blamed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for blocking the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the two years since she first sued the Trump administration, Ramos has become an outspoken advocate with the National TPS Alliance, starring in Facebook videos and radio shows in Spanish. She shares lessons with other TPS families that she says she learned from her mom: stay positive and keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've met a lot of children who are also in this situation [of] losing their parents,\" Ramos said. \"So that's given me more courage to be able to speak out because I know that I'm not the only one in this fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Crista Ramos is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit aiming to stop the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for more than 400,000 immigrants, including her mother.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1594331665,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1285},"headData":{"title":"Bay Area Teen Awaits Ruling on Humanitarian Protections for Mom and Other Immigrants | KQED","description":"Crista Ramos is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit aiming to stop the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for more than 400,000 immigrants, including her mother.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11828006 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11828006","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/07/09/bay-area-teen-awaits-ruling-on-humanitarian-protections-for-mom-and-other-immigrants/","disqusTitle":"Bay Area Teen Awaits Ruling on Humanitarian Protections for Mom and Other Immigrants","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/942b8f08-8d36-40f2-8c8d-abf2012360f3/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11828006/bay-area-teen-awaits-ruling-on-humanitarian-protections-for-mom-and-other-immigrants","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Crista Ramos, 16, devoted her weekends to soccer practice and games around the Bay Area with her team, the Richmond Lionesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that was canceled due to the coronavirus. Now, Ramos spends her days at home in San Pablo, with her parents and 13-year-old brother. But far from regretting it, Ramos said she is grateful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are trying to look on the bright side of things,\" Ramos said, a high school junior who was born and raised in the Bay Area. \"The coronavirus has given us more time to be home, as a family. So we’ve had more time to do things together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos is painfully aware that her family may not be able to stay together. She is one of roughly 300,000 United States citizen children whose parents could face deportation if the Trump administration prevails in a legal fight over humanitarian protections known as Temporary Protected Status or TPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Ramos is the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/cases/ramos-v-nielsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ramos v. Nielsen\u003c/a>, aiming to stop the Trump administration from ending TPS for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20200401_RS20844_91460572a0f416f013d508c6afb7a68f60a29b80.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">400,000 immigrants\u003c/a> nationwide, including Ramos' mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to issue a ruling any day now on whether those TPS holders can continue to live and work in this country while the merits of the case are decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been waiting in this limbo of not knowing what's going to happen with our families,\" Ramos said. \"Now, we are getting more anxious because it's been months since the last court hearing, and we haven’t heard anything back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"temporary-protected-status"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to immigrants who couldn’t return safely to countries torn by war and natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security can designate a country for TPS for periods of six to 18 months, and extend the protections after periodic review. Immigrants from El Salvador who were already here when TPS was first granted, like Ramos' mother, have been eligible for the protections for 19 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting in 2017, the Trump administration terminated the protections for six countries: El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump officials claim TPS is no longer needed because the initial earthquakes and other conditions that led to the designations have been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During court hearings, plaintiff attorneys argued that past administrations looked more broadly at the potentially dangerous conditions of a country and whether it could safely absorb a large number of deportees, to determine whether to continue TPS for that country’s nationals in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in San Francisco issued an injunction, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694816/judge-in-san-francisco-could-preserve-humanitarian-immigrant-protections-for-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blocking\u003c/a> the administration from ending the program while the case is decided. Now Ramos and thousands of others are looking to the 9th Circuit to keep that injunction in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11828010\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS43878_011_KQED_Richmond_TPS_07072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crista Ramos spends time with her mother Cristina Morales, father Edgar Ramos and brother Diego at Marina Park in Richmond on July 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Ramos and her family are finding hope in another court ruling that favored hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration didn’t follow the law when it tried to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Supreme Court decision on DACA, it made me feel like I was the one who was winning the case,\" said Cristina Morales, 39, Crista’s mother and also a plaintiff in the TPS lawsuit. “Very strong. Very happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the DACA recipients, TPS plaintiffs argue that the Trump administration ended the relief unlawfully because officials failed to adequately consider the impact on the families, investments and jobs of so many people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court’s opinion should make it easier for lower courts to find that the government acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it revoked TPS, said Kevin Johnson, dean of the University of California, Davis School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the DACA decision will have a very significant impact on the way that the 9th Circuit looks at this case,\" Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I think the DACA decision will have a very significant impact on the way that the 9th Circuit looks at this case.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Kevin Johnson, UC Davis School of Law","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another argument shared by plaintiffs in both cases is that the Trump administration was motivated by racial animus against non-white immigrants. The Supreme Court majority said DACA plaintiffs lacked enough evidence to win on this “equal protection” claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Johnson believes Ramos and the other TPS plaintiffs have stronger evidence than the DACA recipients had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January of 2018, shortly after ending TPS for immigrants from El Salvador and Haiti, Trump referred to them as coming from “shithole countries,” in a meeting with lawmakers at the Oval Office. Trump also suggested he would prefer more immigrants from predominantly white countries such as Norway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That sounds like racial animus,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the 9th Circuit sides with the administration, impacted TPS holders would lose their work permits on Jan. 4, 2021. Four months after the appeals court rules, immigrants from Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan would completely lose their protections, while Salvadorans would have at least a year, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/dhs-extends-tps-documentation-six-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Homeland Security\u003c/a>. Haitians are also waiting on a ruling in a second lawsuit, but if they lose that as well, they would become deportable after 120 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ramos, and her brother, Diego, keeping their mother in the country has become even more important since last summer. Diego was diagnosed with a rare, slow-growing cancer, angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma, that is treated with surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diego has undergone three surgeries to remove tumors, and more could be needed, Ramos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If my mom had to go back to El Salvador, she wouldn't be able to be here for her son. It'd be difficult, not only in terms of trauma, but his health now depends on it.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Crista Ramos, plaintiff","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If my mom had to go back to El Salvador, she wouldn't be able to be here for her son,\" Ramos said. \"It'd be difficult, not only in terms of trauma, but his health now depends on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother’s illness has motivated Ramos to work even harder to find a lasting way for her family to stay together, such as joining a years-long battle to push Congress to grant TPS holders a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would do just that: the American Dream and Promise Act, introduced by Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA). But the Republican-controlled Senate has not taken it up yet, and Roybal-Allard blamed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for blocking the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the two years since she first sued the Trump administration, Ramos has become an outspoken advocate with the National TPS Alliance, starring in Facebook videos and radio shows in Spanish. She shares lessons with other TPS families that she says she learned from her mom: stay positive and keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've met a lot of children who are also in this situation [of] losing their parents,\" Ramos said. \"So that's given me more courage to be able to speak out because I know that I'm not the only one in this fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11828006/bay-area-teen-awaits-ruling-on-humanitarian-protections-for-mom-and-other-immigrants","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_20202","news_20481","news_22335","news_24242","news_22226"],"featImg":"news_11828011","label":"news"},"news_11824078":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11824078","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11824078","score":null,"sort":[1592065113000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"essential-workers-with-temporary-protected-status-could-be-at-risk-of-deportation","title":"Essential Workers with Temporary Protected Status Could be at Risk of Deportation","publishDate":1592065113,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>As millions of Californians were ordered to stay home in March, Fernando Flores, 44, kept heading to work six days a week at San Mateo County’s only active landfill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores, who immigrated from El Salvador, said he wakes up at 3:30 a.m. to drive a 64-foot long trailer, transporting hundreds of gallons of contaminated liquid from trash at the Ox Mountain Sanitary Landfill to wastewater treatment plants. During other shifts, Flores picks up garbage and compost from homes in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud to be part of an industry that’s essential,” Flores said. He's been an employee of the waste management company Republic Services for about 16 years. “It’s a service that’s needed every day. We don’t stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flores and more than 100,000 essential workers who are immigrants could be at risk of deportation, as President Donald Trump’s administration continues a years-long fight to end the humanitarian protections that allows them to live and work in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 131,000 beneficiaries of \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/temporary-protected-status-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">temporary protected status\u003c/a> (TPS) nationwide are essential workers, including nearly 28,000 in California, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2020/04/14/483197/release-130000-tps-holders-serving-essential-workers-coronavirus-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research\u003c/a> by Nicole Prchal Svajlenka, with the progressive think tank \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/person/svajlenka-nicole/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for American Progress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the people that are keeping our country moving right now,” Svajlenka said. “They are the people that keep our grocery shelves stocked, the people that keep our streets clean, and they are doing this knowing that at any moment their future in the United States could change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824091 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flores describes how he operates a truck to transport contaminated water from a landfill near Half Moon Bay to a treatment plant on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth La Berge/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to immigrants already present in the U.S. who were not able to return safely to countries ravaged by war and natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security designates which nationals are eligible for the protections. After periodic review, the agency may extend the status, generally every six to 18 months. Immigrants from El Salvador have been eligible for TPS for nearly 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting in 2017, DHS issued a series of orders ending this protected status for most holders, claiming the humanitarian relief was no longer needed because the original conditions that led to the designations had been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It matches an overall Trump administration approach of being very strict in the application of immigration laws, and very narrow in the discretion and grant of relief and immigration,” said Julia Gelatt, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, who has followed the program for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TPS holders and their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. citizen children\u003c/a> in California and other states sued, arguing DHS broke practice with previous administrations, and its terminations of the program were unlawful and motivated by Trump’s hostility against Black and brown immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courts have kept the program alive while they consider the dispute, but that could change with a highly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767669/will-u-s-keep-humanitarian-protections-for-many-immigrants-federal-judges-to-decide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anticipated ruling\u003c/a> by a three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, which is expected soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahilan Arulanantham, lead plaintiff attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, said if the appeals judges side with the administration, TPS holders might request the U.S. Supreme Court to review the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have to examine the grounds of any decision before committing to further steps,” Arulanantham said. “But it is hard to imagine not seeking every possible avenue of relief available to protect the 400,000 TPS holders and the roughly 300,000 school-age American children whose lives are at stake in this decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvadorans represent the largest group of TPS beneficiaries, and often have built their lives in the U.S. over more than two decades. There are also many who are parents to U.S. citizen children, and own homes and businesses. Households with TPS members collectively pay about \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2019/02/11/466068/release-2-cap-products-highlight-whats-stake-tps-ends/#:~:text=The%20annual%20spending%20power%20of,United%20States%20have%20a%20mortgage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$3.6 billion in taxes\u003c/a> per year, said Svajlenka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, immigrants with TPS have pushed Congress for more permanent protections. Last spring, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded&KWICView=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Dream and Promise Act\u003c/a>, which would offer a path to U.S. citizenship to beneficiaries of TPS and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate has not taken it up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill has now been languishing in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s legislative graveyard for one full year,” wrote Roybal-Allard and two cosponsors of the bill in an \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/501068-keeping-dreamers-tps-holders-in-our-workforce-and-communities-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed\u003c/a> last week. “In the middle of a pandemic, when hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients and TPS holders are risking their lives to support our communities… we cannot allow these individuals to live with this fear and uncertainty any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a limited extension of TPS was included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act this past spring, it didn’t make it into the final legislation Trump signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The prospects are not easy,\" said Yanira Arias, national campaign manager with Alianza Americas and a TPS holder from El Salvador. \"We are paying attention to the political landscape and see that it may not work in our favor... But we continue to push back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824089 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flores takes a break from his job at the Ox Mountain Landfill in Half Moon Bay on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flores, the garbage truck driver, said he often feels that TPS holders are just not a priority for federal lawmakers, particularly as the country faces the pandemic and historically high unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody cares about us, not Congress nor the President,” said Flores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the courts halted TPS terminations for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan, DHS has extended their work authorization until \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/dhs-extends-tps-documentation-six-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 4, 2021\u003c/a>. Flores said he is keenly aware of the approaching date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His partner and young daughter, who just finished elementary school, are U.S. citizens who depend on his salary, he said. That income will disappear if he has to return to El Salvador, a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/el-salvador\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Rights Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be devastating, emotionally and financially,” said Flores, who has lived in the U.S. for 21 years.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An estimated 28,000 essential workers in California could be at risk of deportation, as the Trump administration continues the fight to end the humanitarian protections that allow them to live and work in the U.S.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1592261291,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1093},"headData":{"title":"Essential Workers with Temporary Protected Status Could be at Risk of Deportation | KQED","description":"An estimated 28,000 essential workers in California could be at risk of deportation, as the Trump administration continues the fight to end the humanitarian protections that allow them to live and work in the U.S.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11824078 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11824078","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/06/13/essential-workers-with-temporary-protected-status-could-be-at-risk-of-deportation/","disqusTitle":"Essential Workers with Temporary Protected Status Could be at Risk of Deportation","source":"News","sourceUrl":"http://kqed.org/news/","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/69234245-511e-4b25-b12f-abd70114095b/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11824078/essential-workers-with-temporary-protected-status-could-be-at-risk-of-deportation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As millions of Californians were ordered to stay home in March, Fernando Flores, 44, kept heading to work six days a week at San Mateo County’s only active landfill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores, who immigrated from El Salvador, said he wakes up at 3:30 a.m. to drive a 64-foot long trailer, transporting hundreds of gallons of contaminated liquid from trash at the Ox Mountain Sanitary Landfill to wastewater treatment plants. During other shifts, Flores picks up garbage and compost from homes in Half Moon Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m proud to be part of an industry that’s essential,” Flores said. He's been an employee of the waste management company Republic Services for about 16 years. “It’s a service that’s needed every day. We don’t stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flores and more than 100,000 essential workers who are immigrants could be at risk of deportation, as President Donald Trump’s administration continues a years-long fight to end the humanitarian protections that allows them to live and work in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 131,000 beneficiaries of \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/temporary-protected-status-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">temporary protected status\u003c/a> (TPS) nationwide are essential workers, including nearly 28,000 in California, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2020/04/14/483197/release-130000-tps-holders-serving-essential-workers-coronavirus-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research\u003c/a> by Nicole Prchal Svajlenka, with the progressive think tank \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/person/svajlenka-nicole/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for American Progress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the people that are keeping our country moving right now,” Svajlenka said. “They are the people that keep our grocery shelves stocked, the people that keep our streets clean, and they are doing this knowing that at any moment their future in the United States could change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824091 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43580_003_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flores describes how he operates a truck to transport contaminated water from a landfill near Half Moon Bay to a treatment plant on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth La Berge/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to immigrants already present in the U.S. who were not able to return safely to countries ravaged by war and natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security designates which nationals are eligible for the protections. After periodic review, the agency may extend the status, generally every six to 18 months. Immigrants from El Salvador have been eligible for TPS for nearly 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting in 2017, DHS issued a series of orders ending this protected status for most holders, claiming the humanitarian relief was no longer needed because the original conditions that led to the designations had been resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It matches an overall Trump administration approach of being very strict in the application of immigration laws, and very narrow in the discretion and grant of relief and immigration,” said Julia Gelatt, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, who has followed the program for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TPS holders and their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. citizen children\u003c/a> in California and other states sued, arguing DHS broke practice with previous administrations, and its terminations of the program were unlawful and motivated by Trump’s hostility against Black and brown immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courts have kept the program alive while they consider the dispute, but that could change with a highly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767669/will-u-s-keep-humanitarian-protections-for-many-immigrants-federal-judges-to-decide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anticipated ruling\u003c/a> by a three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, which is expected soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahilan Arulanantham, lead plaintiff attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, said if the appeals judges side with the administration, TPS holders might request the U.S. Supreme Court to review the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have to examine the grounds of any decision before committing to further steps,” Arulanantham said. “But it is hard to imagine not seeking every possible avenue of relief available to protect the 400,000 TPS holders and the roughly 300,000 school-age American children whose lives are at stake in this decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvadorans represent the largest group of TPS beneficiaries, and often have built their lives in the U.S. over more than two decades. There are also many who are parents to U.S. citizen children, and own homes and businesses. Households with TPS members collectively pay about \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2019/02/11/466068/release-2-cap-products-highlight-whats-stake-tps-ends/#:~:text=The%20annual%20spending%20power%20of,United%20States%20have%20a%20mortgage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$3.6 billion in taxes\u003c/a> per year, said Svajlenka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, immigrants with TPS have pushed Congress for more permanent protections. Last spring, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded&KWICView=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Dream and Promise Act\u003c/a>, which would offer a path to U.S. citizenship to beneficiaries of TPS and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate has not taken it up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill has now been languishing in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s legislative graveyard for one full year,” wrote Roybal-Allard and two cosponsors of the bill in an \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/501068-keeping-dreamers-tps-holders-in-our-workforce-and-communities-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed\u003c/a> last week. “In the middle of a pandemic, when hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients and TPS holders are risking their lives to support our communities… we cannot allow these individuals to live with this fear and uncertainty any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a limited extension of TPS was included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act this past spring, it didn’t make it into the final legislation Trump signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The prospects are not easy,\" said Yanira Arias, national campaign manager with Alianza Americas and a TPS holder from El Salvador. \"We are paying attention to the political landscape and see that it may not work in our favor... But we continue to push back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11824089 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43587_015_KQED_HalfMoonBay_OxMountainLandfill_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flores takes a break from his job at the Ox Mountain Landfill in Half Moon Bay on May 29, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flores, the garbage truck driver, said he often feels that TPS holders are just not a priority for federal lawmakers, particularly as the country faces the pandemic and historically high unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody cares about us, not Congress nor the President,” said Flores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the courts halted TPS terminations for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan, DHS has extended their work authorization until \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/dhs-extends-tps-documentation-six-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 4, 2021\u003c/a>. Flores said he is keenly aware of the approaching date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His partner and young daughter, who just finished elementary school, are U.S. citizens who depend on his salary, he said. That income will disappear if he has to return to El Salvador, a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/el-salvador\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Rights Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be devastating, emotionally and financially,” said Flores, who has lived in the U.S. for 21 years.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11824078/essential-workers-with-temporary-protected-status-could-be-at-risk-of-deportation","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_27698","news_27626","news_20202","news_22335"],"featImg":"news_11824092","label":"source_news_11824078"},"news_11783511":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11783511","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11783511","score":null,"sort":[1572374652000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"trump-administration-extends-protections-for-many-salvadorans-living-in-u-s","title":"Trump Administration Extends Protections for Many Salvadorans Living in U.S.","publishDate":1572374652,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The U.S. government is extending work permits for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20190329_RS20844_40bba737bf5e4440ac7bebb19757db87fe994fa4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">250,000 immigrants\u003c/a> from El Salvador who live in the U.S. under temporary humanitarian protections, as part of a new Trump administration agreement with the Central American country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/10/28/us-and-el-salvador-sign-arrangements-security-information-sharing-give-salvadorans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the accord announced Monday\u003c/a>, work authorization for Salvadorans with Temporary Protected Status won’t expire until Jan. 4, 2021 — which represents a one-year extension. In exchange, El Salvador has committed to increase its cooperation with Washington to tackle “irregular migration” and border security issues, according to the Department of Homeland Security, though details remained vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='asylum-seekers' label='Related Coverage']The largest proportion of Salvadoran TPS holders — nearly 75,000 — live in California, and have been protected from deportation for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes despite a push by the Trump administration over the past two years to end TPS for people from El Salvador and several other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s agreements will significantly help the U.S. and our partners in El Salvador confront illegal migration and will strengthen the entire region as we approach the implementation of asylum cooperative agreements,” said Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan, who announced his resignation earlier in October but has not yet stepped down from his post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal represents one of a series of\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_1028_opa_factsheet-northern-central-america-agreements_508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> agreements,\u003c/a> intended to reduce the flow of asylum-seekers, that the Trump administration has recently struck with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Most migrants detained at the southern border are from those three countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Ahilan Arulanantham, ACLU of Southern California']'For U.S. citizen children of TPS holders, they could face an impossible choice ... living in the only country they’ve ever known or be separated from their parents.'[/pullquote]The accords include one signed in September, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/politics/us-asylum-el-salvador.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could force\u003c/a> Central American migrants to seek protections in El Salvador — a gang-plagued nation with one of the highest murder rates in the world — instead of in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a safe country,” said Claudia Lainez, a Salvadoran veterinary assistant in Oakland who has held TPS since 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lainez, the mother of a 19-year-old U.S. citizen daughter, said she was “relieved” by the news of the one-year extension. But she also decried the measure as insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great that we have one more year. We need to use it as much as we can to push Congress to give us a more permanent solution,” said Lainez, a member of the National TPS Alliance. “It’s really hard to be in this limbo of waiting, waiting to see what’s going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January 2018, the Trump administration has taken steps to end the humanitarian protections for about 400,000 people from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://cmsny.org/publications/jmhs-tps-elsalvador-honduras-haiti/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">273,000 U.S. citizens\u003c/a>, most school-age children, have at least one parent with TPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide temporary humanitarian relief to immigrants already in the U.S. who could not return safely to home countries struck by armed conflict or natural disasters.[/pullquote]Last October, a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked the government from ending the protections. The 9th U.S. District Court of Appeals is expected to soon decide whether the program can continue, said Ahilan Arulanantham, lead plaintiff attorney with the ACLU of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lainez and other Salvadoran TPS holders have had to undergo security screenings at least every 18 months to renew their permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arulanantham said the lawsuit guarantees TPS holders from the affected countries six months of protections beyond the date of an adverse court decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While one year is better than six months, it’s still a very short amount of time for a person who’s lived here lawfully for 20 years,” said Arulanantham. “Particularly for U.S. citizen children of TPS holders, they could face an impossible choice ... living in the only country they’ve ever known or be[ing] separated from their parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new agreement, the U.S. is also providing Salvadoran TPS holders with another year to repatriate to their home country if courts rule the Trump administration ended TPS lawfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Administration’s goal is to create an orderly and responsible process to repatriate Salvadorans and help them return home; however, a sudden inflow of 250,000 individuals to El Salvador could spark another mass migration to the U.S. and reinvigorate the crisis at the southern border,” said a Homeland Security statement justifying the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Gelatt, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, said it was “encouraging” to see the administration recognize the potentially destructive impact of a sudden return of all TPS holders to El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent agreements with Central American countries are part of a broader Trump administration strategy to stop potential asylum-seekers from reaching the U.S. border, she said. But those agreements don’t seem to address the reasons people say they are fleeing those countries in the first place, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They won’t get rid of any of the push factors that are causing people to seek protections in the U.S. — from poverty to political oppression,” Gelatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-aid/us-restores-aid-to-central-america-after-reaching-migration-deals-idUSKBN1WV2T8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reversed its decision\u003c/a> to stop sending aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador after those countries signed agreements affecting asylum-seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Department of Homeland Security']'The Administration’s goal is to create an orderly and responsible process to repatriate Salvadorans and help them return home.'[/pullquote]DHS did not return a request for more information on the September asylum agreement with El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a positive development for the U.S. and all of our neighbors to increase our cooperation and migration management and information sharing. The big question mark is what the asylum part of this deal will look like,” said Gelatt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Monday’s immigration accord, Washington and El Salvador will expand biometric data collection and information sharing. U.S. immigration officials will advise Salvadoran police and immigration agents, and “share best practices to support criminal investigations, countering human trafficking and drug trafficking,” according to a Homeland Security statement.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Trump administration is extending work permits for more than 250,000 immigrants from El Salvador who live in the U.S. under temporary humanitarian protections — reversing its earlier opposition to the program.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1578444814,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1098},"headData":{"title":"Trump Administration Extends Protections for Many Salvadorans Living in U.S. | KQED","description":"The Trump administration is extending work permits for more than 250,000 immigrants from El Salvador who live in the U.S. under temporary humanitarian protections — reversing its earlier opposition to the program.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11783511 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11783511","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/29/trump-administration-extends-protections-for-many-salvadorans-living-in-u-s/","disqusTitle":"Trump Administration Extends Protections for Many Salvadorans Living in U.S.","path":"/news/11783511/trump-administration-extends-protections-for-many-salvadorans-living-in-u-s","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The U.S. government is extending work permits for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20190329_RS20844_40bba737bf5e4440ac7bebb19757db87fe994fa4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">250,000 immigrants\u003c/a> from El Salvador who live in the U.S. under temporary humanitarian protections, as part of a new Trump administration agreement with the Central American country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/10/28/us-and-el-salvador-sign-arrangements-security-information-sharing-give-salvadorans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the accord announced Monday\u003c/a>, work authorization for Salvadorans with Temporary Protected Status won’t expire until Jan. 4, 2021 — which represents a one-year extension. In exchange, El Salvador has committed to increase its cooperation with Washington to tackle “irregular migration” and border security issues, according to the Department of Homeland Security, though details remained vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"asylum-seekers","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The largest proportion of Salvadoran TPS holders — nearly 75,000 — live in California, and have been protected from deportation for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes despite a push by the Trump administration over the past two years to end TPS for people from El Salvador and several other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s agreements will significantly help the U.S. and our partners in El Salvador confront illegal migration and will strengthen the entire region as we approach the implementation of asylum cooperative agreements,” said Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan, who announced his resignation earlier in October but has not yet stepped down from his post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal represents one of a series of\u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_1028_opa_factsheet-northern-central-america-agreements_508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> agreements,\u003c/a> intended to reduce the flow of asylum-seekers, that the Trump administration has recently struck with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Most migrants detained at the southern border are from those three countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'For U.S. citizen children of TPS holders, they could face an impossible choice ... living in the only country they’ve ever known or be separated from their parents.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Ahilan Arulanantham, ACLU of Southern California","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The accords include one signed in September, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/politics/us-asylum-el-salvador.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could force\u003c/a> Central American migrants to seek protections in El Salvador — a gang-plagued nation with one of the highest murder rates in the world — instead of in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a safe country,” said Claudia Lainez, a Salvadoran veterinary assistant in Oakland who has held TPS since 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lainez, the mother of a 19-year-old U.S. citizen daughter, said she was “relieved” by the news of the one-year extension. But she also decried the measure as insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great that we have one more year. We need to use it as much as we can to push Congress to give us a more permanent solution,” said Lainez, a member of the National TPS Alliance. “It’s really hard to be in this limbo of waiting, waiting to see what’s going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January 2018, the Trump administration has taken steps to end the humanitarian protections for about 400,000 people from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://cmsny.org/publications/jmhs-tps-elsalvador-honduras-haiti/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">273,000 U.S. citizens\u003c/a>, most school-age children, have at least one parent with TPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide temporary humanitarian relief to immigrants already in the U.S. who could not return safely to home countries struck by armed conflict or natural disasters.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last October, a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked the government from ending the protections. The 9th U.S. District Court of Appeals is expected to soon decide whether the program can continue, said Ahilan Arulanantham, lead plaintiff attorney with the ACLU of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lainez and other Salvadoran TPS holders have had to undergo security screenings at least every 18 months to renew their permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arulanantham said the lawsuit guarantees TPS holders from the affected countries six months of protections beyond the date of an adverse court decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While one year is better than six months, it’s still a very short amount of time for a person who’s lived here lawfully for 20 years,” said Arulanantham. “Particularly for U.S. citizen children of TPS holders, they could face an impossible choice ... living in the only country they’ve ever known or be[ing] separated from their parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new agreement, the U.S. is also providing Salvadoran TPS holders with another year to repatriate to their home country if courts rule the Trump administration ended TPS lawfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Administration’s goal is to create an orderly and responsible process to repatriate Salvadorans and help them return home; however, a sudden inflow of 250,000 individuals to El Salvador could spark another mass migration to the U.S. and reinvigorate the crisis at the southern border,” said a Homeland Security statement justifying the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Gelatt, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, said it was “encouraging” to see the administration recognize the potentially destructive impact of a sudden return of all TPS holders to El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent agreements with Central American countries are part of a broader Trump administration strategy to stop potential asylum-seekers from reaching the U.S. border, she said. But those agreements don’t seem to address the reasons people say they are fleeing those countries in the first place, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They won’t get rid of any of the push factors that are causing people to seek protections in the U.S. — from poverty to political oppression,” Gelatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-aid/us-restores-aid-to-central-america-after-reaching-migration-deals-idUSKBN1WV2T8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reversed its decision\u003c/a> to stop sending aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador after those countries signed agreements affecting asylum-seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The Administration’s goal is to create an orderly and responsible process to repatriate Salvadorans and help them return home.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Department of Homeland Security","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>DHS did not return a request for more information on the September asylum agreement with El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a positive development for the U.S. and all of our neighbors to increase our cooperation and migration management and information sharing. The big question mark is what the asylum part of this deal will look like,” said Gelatt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Monday’s immigration accord, Washington and El Salvador will expand biometric data collection and information sharing. U.S. immigration officials will advise Salvadoran police and immigration agents, and “share best practices to support criminal investigations, countering human trafficking and drug trafficking,” according to a Homeland Security statement.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11783511/trump-administration-extends-protections-for-many-salvadorans-living-in-u-s","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_23087","news_23653","news_23629","news_23978","news_22335"],"featImg":"news_11783520","label":"news_72"},"news_11767669":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11767669","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11767669","score":null,"sort":[1565829286000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"will-u-s-keep-humanitarian-protections-for-many-immigrants-federal-judges-to-decide","title":"Will U.S. Keep Humanitarian Protections for Many Immigrants? Federal Judges to Decide","publishDate":1565829286,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A three-judge appeals panel is weighing a lower federal court's order that preserves — for now — temporary protections allowing hundreds of thousands of immigrants to live and work in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a hearing Wednesday in Pasadena, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel seemed skeptical of U.S. District Judge Edward Chen's order last fall that blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for more than 400,000 immigrants nationwide, including 75,000 in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security announced last year that it was ending TPS for nationals of El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. In the spring, it added two more countries to the list: Honduras and Nepal. Judge Chen issued an injunction last October that has kept the protections in place while the courts consider the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to immigrants already in the U.S. who could not return safely to home countries struck by wars or natural disasters, such as earthquakes. The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security must periodically review a country’s TPS designation to decide whether to extend the status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration defends getting rid of the protections, saying they’re no longer warranted for most TPS holders because the original conditions that led to the designations no longer exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But plaintiffs say the DHS broke practice with previous administrations that had extended TPS, and its terminations of the program were unlawful and motivated by President Trump’s hostility against non-white immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham cited a vulgar slur by Trump disparaging African nations as “shithole countries” as part of the evidence of the racial animus that allegedly influenced TPS terminations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='immigration' label='Related Coverage']But Judge Ryan Nelson questioned whether such statements were enough to support the plaintiff’s arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's this assumption that the president has animus,” said Nelson, a Trump appointee. “But if you go read the president's statements, none of them except for one have anything to do with the TPS statute that we're reviewing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Department of Justice attorney Gerard Sinzdak argued the government had the authority to issue the program terminations, despite any statements by Trump — before or after he took the oath of office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s inappropriate to draw the kind of inferences that plaintiffs are asking you to draw here… and then draw the inference that the (DHS) secretary was motivated by those views,” he said. “There is no cause for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the 9th circuit ends the lower court’s temporary injunction, plaintiffs would likely appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Once a final ruling is made, TPS holders from the six affected countries could ultimately face deportation after a four-month grace period, said Sinzdak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear when the appeals panel will rule.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A federal appeals panel is considering whether to keep a lower court's order preserving protections that allow more than 400,000 immigrants to live and work in the U.S.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1565897256,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":507},"headData":{"title":"Will U.S. Keep Humanitarian Protections for Many Immigrants? Federal Judges to Decide | KQED","description":"A federal appeals panel is considering whether to keep a lower court's order preserving protections that allow more than 400,000 immigrants to live and work in the U.S.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11767669 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11767669","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/14/will-u-s-keep-humanitarian-protections-for-many-immigrants-federal-judges-to-decide/","disqusTitle":"Will U.S. Keep Humanitarian Protections for Many Immigrants? Federal Judges to Decide","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/08/284318RomeroTrumpImmigration.mp3","audioTrackLength":105,"path":"/news/11767669/will-u-s-keep-humanitarian-protections-for-many-immigrants-federal-judges-to-decide","audioDuration":105000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A three-judge appeals panel is weighing a lower federal court's order that preserves — for now — temporary protections allowing hundreds of thousands of immigrants to live and work in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a hearing Wednesday in Pasadena, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel seemed skeptical of U.S. District Judge Edward Chen's order last fall that blocked the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for more than 400,000 immigrants nationwide, including 75,000 in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security announced last year that it was ending TPS for nationals of El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. In the spring, it added two more countries to the list: Honduras and Nepal. Judge Chen issued an injunction last October that has kept the protections in place while the courts consider the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to immigrants already in the U.S. who could not return safely to home countries struck by wars or natural disasters, such as earthquakes. The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security must periodically review a country’s TPS designation to decide whether to extend the status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration defends getting rid of the protections, saying they’re no longer warranted for most TPS holders because the original conditions that led to the designations no longer exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But plaintiffs say the DHS broke practice with previous administrations that had extended TPS, and its terminations of the program were unlawful and motivated by President Trump’s hostility against non-white immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham cited a vulgar slur by Trump disparaging African nations as “shithole countries” as part of the evidence of the racial animus that allegedly influenced TPS terminations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"immigration","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Judge Ryan Nelson questioned whether such statements were enough to support the plaintiff’s arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's this assumption that the president has animus,” said Nelson, a Trump appointee. “But if you go read the president's statements, none of them except for one have anything to do with the TPS statute that we're reviewing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Department of Justice attorney Gerard Sinzdak argued the government had the authority to issue the program terminations, despite any statements by Trump — before or after he took the oath of office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s inappropriate to draw the kind of inferences that plaintiffs are asking you to draw here… and then draw the inference that the (DHS) secretary was motivated by those views,” he said. “There is no cause for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the 9th circuit ends the lower court’s temporary injunction, plaintiffs would likely appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Once a final ruling is made, TPS holders from the six affected countries could ultimately face deportation after a four-month grace period, said Sinzdak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear when the appeals panel will rule.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11767669/will-u-s-keep-humanitarian-protections-for-many-immigrants-federal-judges-to-decide","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_17708","news_20202","news_22335"],"featImg":"news_11767673","label":"news_72"},"news_11725416":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11725416","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11725416","score":null,"sort":[1549928446000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"more-immigrants-sue-trump-administration-over-end-to-temporary-protected-status","title":"More Immigrants Sue Trump Administration Over End to Temporary Protected Status","publishDate":1549928446,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Immigrants from Honduras and Nepal have filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration unfairly ended a program that lets them live and work in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed late Sunday in federal court in San Francisco, alleges that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's decision to end so-called temporary protected status for the countries was motivated by racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s\">California Teen Leads Suit to Keep Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants in U.S.\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"//www.kqed.org/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s/\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34526_IMG_0789-qut-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The suit — which was filed on behalf of six immigrants and two of their American-born children — also alleges that the department changed how it evaluated conditions in these countries when determining whether immigrants could return there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We bring evidence the Trump administration has repeatedly denigrated nonwhite, non-European immigrants and reviewed TPS designations with a goal of removing such nonwhite, non-European immigrants from the United States,\" said Minju Cho, a staff attorney at \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice\u003c/a> in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is one of several representing the immigrant plaintiffs, who live in California, Minnesota, Maryland, Virginia and Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press left a message seeking comment from the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is the latest in a series of court filings challenging the Trump administration's decision to end the program for a cluster of countries whose citizens have lived and worked legally in the United States for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696540/california-judge-blocks-us-from-ending-protections-for-some-immigrants\">a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked\u003c/a> the U.S. government from halting the program for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. The suit filed on behalf of citizens of those countries, in addition to this one, cited Trump's vulgar language during a meeting last year to describe African countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724799/family-separations-flourish-in-homeland-security-grey-area-despite-ban\">Family Separations Continue in Homeland Security 'Gray Area' Despite Ban\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724799/family-separations-flourish-in-homeland-security-grey-area-despite-ban\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1067868922-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government grants \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">temporary protected status\u003c/a>, also known as TPS, to citizens of countries ravaged by natural disasters or war so they can stay and work legally in the United States until the situation improves back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The status is short-term but renewable, and some immigrants have lived in the country for decades, raising American-born children, buying homes and building careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have said the program was meant to be temporary and shouldn't be extended for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration announced last year that the program would be ending for Honduras and Nepal. Honduras was designated for the program after a devastating 1998 hurricane, and about 86,000 immigrants from the country have the status, according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15,000 immigrants from Nepal — which was designated following an earthquake in 2015 — are covered, the suit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, these immigrants have more than 50,000 American-born children who would be affected by an end to the program, which lets those who are already in the United States stay in the country and obtain work permits, the suit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714240/new-policy-adds-to-complexity-for-migrants-in-mexico-seeking-u-s-asylum\">New Policy Adds to Complexity for Migrants in Mexico Seeking U.S. Asylum\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714240/new-policy-adds-to-complexity-for-migrants-in-mexico-seeking-u-s-asylum\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34155_Nolvia-Romero-FINAL-01-qut-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of them is the 9-year-old daughter of Honduran citizen Donaldo Posadas Caceres, who came to the United States shortly before the hurricane in 1998. After Honduras was designated for the program, he obtained the status, and now works as a bridge painter and owns his home in Baltimore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he doesn't want his children to return to a country they don't know and where life is so dangerous. His elder daughter, he said, is in college studying to be a lawyer, while the 9-year-old has plans of her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has the dreams of a child: She wants to be president,\" he told reporters in Spanish during a telephone conference. \"And I want to be here in the United States to support them, and see their achievements.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco alleges that the Department of Homeland Security's decision was motivated by racism.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1549928446,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":637},"headData":{"title":"More Immigrants Sue Trump Administration Over End to Temporary Protected Status | KQED","description":"The lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco alleges that the Department of Homeland Security's decision was motivated by racism.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11725416 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11725416","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/02/11/more-immigrants-sue-trump-administration-over-end-to-temporary-protected-status/","disqusTitle":"More Immigrants Sue Trump Administration Over End to Temporary Protected Status","nprByline":"Amy Taxin \u003cbr> Associated Press","path":"/news/11725416/more-immigrants-sue-trump-administration-over-end-to-temporary-protected-status","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Immigrants from Honduras and Nepal have filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration unfairly ended a program that lets them live and work in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed late Sunday in federal court in San Francisco, alleges that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's decision to end so-called temporary protected status for the countries was motivated by racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s\">California Teen Leads Suit to Keep Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants in U.S.\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"//www.kqed.org/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s/\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34526_IMG_0789-qut-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The suit — which was filed on behalf of six immigrants and two of their American-born children — also alleges that the department changed how it evaluated conditions in these countries when determining whether immigrants could return there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We bring evidence the Trump administration has repeatedly denigrated nonwhite, non-European immigrants and reviewed TPS designations with a goal of removing such nonwhite, non-European immigrants from the United States,\" said Minju Cho, a staff attorney at \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice\u003c/a> in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is one of several representing the immigrant plaintiffs, who live in California, Minnesota, Maryland, Virginia and Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press left a message seeking comment from the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is the latest in a series of court filings challenging the Trump administration's decision to end the program for a cluster of countries whose citizens have lived and worked legally in the United States for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696540/california-judge-blocks-us-from-ending-protections-for-some-immigrants\">a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked\u003c/a> the U.S. government from halting the program for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. The suit filed on behalf of citizens of those countries, in addition to this one, cited Trump's vulgar language during a meeting last year to describe African countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724799/family-separations-flourish-in-homeland-security-grey-area-despite-ban\">Family Separations Continue in Homeland Security 'Gray Area' Despite Ban\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11724799/family-separations-flourish-in-homeland-security-grey-area-despite-ban\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/GettyImages-1067868922-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government grants \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">temporary protected status\u003c/a>, also known as TPS, to citizens of countries ravaged by natural disasters or war so they can stay and work legally in the United States until the situation improves back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The status is short-term but renewable, and some immigrants have lived in the country for decades, raising American-born children, buying homes and building careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have said the program was meant to be temporary and shouldn't be extended for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration announced last year that the program would be ending for Honduras and Nepal. Honduras was designated for the program after a devastating 1998 hurricane, and about 86,000 immigrants from the country have the status, according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 15,000 immigrants from Nepal — which was designated following an earthquake in 2015 — are covered, the suit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, these immigrants have more than 50,000 American-born children who would be affected by an end to the program, which lets those who are already in the United States stay in the country and obtain work permits, the suit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714240/new-policy-adds-to-complexity-for-migrants-in-mexico-seeking-u-s-asylum\">New Policy Adds to Complexity for Migrants in Mexico Seeking U.S. Asylum\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714240/new-policy-adds-to-complexity-for-migrants-in-mexico-seeking-u-s-asylum\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34155_Nolvia-Romero-FINAL-01-qut-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>One of them is the 9-year-old daughter of Honduran citizen Donaldo Posadas Caceres, who came to the United States shortly before the hurricane in 1998. After Honduras was designated for the program, he obtained the status, and now works as a bridge painter and owns his home in Baltimore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he doesn't want his children to return to a country they don't know and where life is so dangerous. His elder daughter, he said, is in college studying to be a lawyer, while the 9-year-old has plans of her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has the dreams of a child: She wants to be president,\" he told reporters in Spanish during a telephone conference. \"And I want to be here in the United States to support them, and see their achievements.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11725416/more-immigrants-sue-trump-administration-over-end-to-temporary-protected-status","authors":["byline_news_11725416"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_1323","news_22334","news_22373","news_22527","news_21920","news_25014","news_22335","news_24242"],"featImg":"news_11725430","label":"news_72"},"news_11714388":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11714388","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11714388","score":null,"sort":[1545433667000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s","title":"California Teen Leads Suit to Keep Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants in U.S.","publishDate":1545433667,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>High school freshman Crista Ramos used to be mostly preoccupied with school, friends and soccer practice with her Bay Area team, the Richmond Lionesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that changed in January when the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/01/08/secretary-homeland-security-kirstjen-m-nielsen-announcement-temporary-protected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced\u003c/a> plans to end the humanitarian protections that allow her mother and about 260,000 other immigrants from El Salvador to lawfully live and work in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the San Pablo teen and U.S. citizen has become an outspoken advocate to preserve Temporary Protected Status, becoming the lead plaintiff in a landmark class-action \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/cases/ramos-v-nielsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenge for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RS20844.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">300,000 people\u003c/a> from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan is the first by U.S. citizen children and TPS-holding parents, including Crista’s mother, Cristina Morales, who joined as a plaintiff and has lived in the United States since she was 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Trump administration ended the protections, Crista would face a monumental choice: Grow up in the United States without her mom, who would likely face deportation, or move with her to El Salvador, a country convulsed by poverty and one of the highest homicide rates in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be a big struggle because in El Salvador, there’s not good opportunities like, for careers,” said Crista, 14. “And it’s very dangerous to live there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crista said she dreams of going to college, playing soccer for the U.S. Women’s National Team and — most immediately — keeping her family together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to immigrants in the U.S. who could not return safely to home countries struck by natural disasters or armed conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security can designate a country for TPS status. After periodic review, DHS may extend the status. Immigrants from El Salvador and Nicaragua have been eligible for TPS more than 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Temporary victory\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Crista learned about a major step toward her goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco temporarily \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694816/judge-in-san-francisco-could-preserve-humanitarian-immigrant-protections-for-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocked\u003c/a> the government from ending TPS, until he rules on the merits of Ramos v. Nielsen, which names U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen as defendant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crista heard about the judge’s decision as her dad drove her to school one morning. Both erupted in cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were really happy in the car,” said Crista. “And when I got to school, all my teachers were congratulating me because they already knew. And that made me feel more comfortable and positive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5662990-TPS-Brief-for-Appellants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appealed\u003c/a> to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has yet to decide whether Chen’s preliminary injunction stays in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11714394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Ahmed, 12, holds a sign in English and Arabic before attending a court hearing in San Francisco on Sept. 26, 2018. Cristina Morales, Crista Ramos and other TPS supporters rally nearby. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crista said she used to be scared of public speaking, but not anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about how there’s other kids who are maybe too scared to speak up,” she said, referring to the estimated \u003ca href=\"http://cmsny.org/publications/jmhs-tps-elsalvador-honduras-haiti/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">273,000 U.S. citizen children \u003c/a>who have at least one parent with TPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I chose to help them, and be the voice of all the kids who are going through the same thing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the lawsuit, Crista has stepped into the spotlight, speaking before crowds of reporters at rallies, attending long meetings with attorneys and going to court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she walked into a hearing in September, Crista proudly pointed to a sign by the courtroom doors that read “Ramos v. Nielsen.” Crista asked if she could take the sign home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal is to keep my family and the other families together,” she said. “So that me and my brother and the other kids in these families can go on with our life, and education and plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales said she’s proud of her daughter’s commitment and dedication. Crista’s friends have been often surprised to hear she’s leading this battle to defend the protections for immigrants, according to Morales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crista is very shy and quiet,” said Morales, a school aide for special needs students. “But her mind is also very settled. Like, when she says something is not right, it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11714405 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crista Ramos sits on a park bench with dad Edgar Ramos, brother Diego and mom Cristina Morales in Richmond, California, on Nov. 4, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Suing the federal government\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emilou MacLean, a lead attorney in the lawsuit, conducted several interviews earlier this year with potential plaintiffs, many of whom were already involved in activism that sought more permanent protections for TPS holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacLean said that’s how she met Morales, who at the time was working at an afterschool care program, and Crista. MacLean said during their first meeting, Crista asked a lot of questions about the lawsuit, and quickly recognized that it had life-changing ramifications for other children in families like hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the very beginning, Crista expressed a willingness to step out of her comfort zone for the protection of her family, but also for the broader impact this lawsuit could have,” said MacLean, with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacLean asked Crista to be the lead plaintiff during a days-long meeting in San Francisco between attorneys and the 14 people who agreed to be plaintiffs, most of whom had traveled from other cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of courage to stand up and say I’m willing to put my name front and center against the Trump administration when something feels unjust,” said MacLean. “She has demonstrated an enormous amount of inner strength, and really sees this as part of the pursuit of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meeting the Pope\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crista’s family said coming out so publicly against the Trump administration has been stressful and feels like a risk, given the president’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because of that initial step, Crista has also lived unexpected moments for a girl from the working-class city of San Pablo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, a nervous Crista stepped onto an airplane for the first time, traveling to Rome to ask Pope Francis for his support and deliver a letter. It asked him to travel to the U.S. and lobby Congress to grant permanent protections for TPS holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crista did not expect to see the pope up close, let alone shake his hand as she stood with about 10 U.S. citizen children of TPS holders by St. Peter’s Basilica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were seeing him, like, getting closer and I really was freaking out. We were all freaking out,” said Crista, whose parents are devout Catholics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep fighting,” Pope Francis told the children in Spanish. “Migrating is a human right. Is that clear? And nobody can stop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11714402\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis meets Crista Ramos and other U.S. citizen children of TPS holders at the Vatican in October 2018, days ahead of the canonization of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero. 'Migrating is a human right,' said Pope Francis. \u003ccite>(Contributed by the National TPS Alliance)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inspired to keep going\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their home in San Pablo, Crista’s parents couldn’t believe their eyes when their cellphones started ringing with photos of a smiling Crista standing inches away from the pope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, one night I was praying to God and asking him to give me strength to show my kids that everything is gonna be OK,” said Morales, “and Crista ended up going to Rome and being next to the pope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crista’s dad, Edgar Ramos, a lector at church, chimed in: “It was everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos said the pope’s message reinforced their hope that the family will prevail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to stay together as a family. We are going to fight until the end as a family,” said Ramos, a foreman who has worked for the same construction company for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the issue plays out in the courts, the parents try to protect their kids with a blanket of never-ending optimism, and focus on what they can control: sticking to their routine of school, work and soccer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos and Morales spend many weekday afternoons and weekends shuttling Crista and her 12-year old brother to soccer practice and matches in nearby Richmond and other cities in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, we will do everything that is in our hands to keep everything normal for them,” said Morales. “I mean we're not gonna let this government decision (to end TPS) destroy family.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Trump administration forced to delay plans to end Temporary Protected Status, affecting families across the country. \r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1546559203,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":47,"wordCount":1512},"headData":{"title":"California Teen Leads Suit to Keep Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants in U.S. | KQED","description":"Trump administration forced to delay plans to end Temporary Protected Status, affecting families across the country. \r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11714388 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11714388","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/21/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s/","disqusTitle":"California Teen Leads Suit to Keep Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants in U.S.","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/12/RomeroTPSTeen.mp3","audioTrackLength":295,"path":"/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>High school freshman Crista Ramos used to be mostly preoccupied with school, friends and soccer practice with her Bay Area team, the Richmond Lionesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that changed in January when the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/01/08/secretary-homeland-security-kirstjen-m-nielsen-announcement-temporary-protected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced\u003c/a> plans to end the humanitarian protections that allow her mother and about 260,000 other immigrants from El Salvador to lawfully live and work in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the San Pablo teen and U.S. citizen has become an outspoken advocate to preserve Temporary Protected Status, becoming the lead plaintiff in a landmark class-action \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/en/cases/ramos-v-nielsen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenge for more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RS20844.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">300,000 people\u003c/a> from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan is the first by U.S. citizen children and TPS-holding parents, including Crista’s mother, Cristina Morales, who joined as a plaintiff and has lived in the United States since she was 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Trump administration ended the protections, Crista would face a monumental choice: Grow up in the United States without her mom, who would likely face deportation, or move with her to El Salvador, a country convulsed by poverty and one of the highest homicide rates in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be a big struggle because in El Salvador, there’s not good opportunities like, for careers,” said Crista, 14. “And it’s very dangerous to live there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crista said she dreams of going to college, playing soccer for the U.S. Women’s National Team and — most immediately — keeping her family together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide humanitarian relief to immigrants in the U.S. who could not return safely to home countries struck by natural disasters or armed conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security can designate a country for TPS status. After periodic review, DHS may extend the status. Immigrants from El Salvador and Nicaragua have been eligible for TPS more than 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Temporary victory\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Crista learned about a major step toward her goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco temporarily \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694816/judge-in-san-francisco-could-preserve-humanitarian-immigrant-protections-for-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocked\u003c/a> the government from ending TPS, until he rules on the merits of Ramos v. Nielsen, which names U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen as defendant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crista heard about the judge’s decision as her dad drove her to school one morning. Both erupted in cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were really happy in the car,” said Crista. “And when I got to school, all my teachers were congratulating me because they already knew. And that made me feel more comfortable and positive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5662990-TPS-Brief-for-Appellants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appealed\u003c/a> to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has yet to decide whether Chen’s preliminary injunction stays in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11714394\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS32986_IMG_8631-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Ahmed, 12, holds a sign in English and Arabic before attending a court hearing in San Francisco on Sept. 26, 2018. Cristina Morales, Crista Ramos and other TPS supporters rally nearby. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crista said she used to be scared of public speaking, but not anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think about how there’s other kids who are maybe too scared to speak up,” she said, referring to the estimated \u003ca href=\"http://cmsny.org/publications/jmhs-tps-elsalvador-honduras-haiti/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">273,000 U.S. citizen children \u003c/a>who have at least one parent with TPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I chose to help them, and be the voice of all the kids who are going through the same thing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the lawsuit, Crista has stepped into the spotlight, speaking before crowds of reporters at rallies, attending long meetings with attorneys and going to court hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she walked into a hearing in September, Crista proudly pointed to a sign by the courtroom doors that read “Ramos v. Nielsen.” Crista asked if she could take the sign home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal is to keep my family and the other families together,” she said. “So that me and my brother and the other kids in these families can go on with our life, and education and plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales said she’s proud of her daughter’s commitment and dedication. Crista’s friends have been often surprised to hear she’s leading this battle to defend the protections for immigrants, according to Morales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crista is very shy and quiet,” said Morales, a school aide for special needs students. “But her mind is also very settled. Like, when she says something is not right, it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11714405 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34533_IMG_2059-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crista Ramos sits on a park bench with dad Edgar Ramos, brother Diego and mom Cristina Morales in Richmond, California, on Nov. 4, 2018. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Suing the federal government\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emilou MacLean, a lead attorney in the lawsuit, conducted several interviews earlier this year with potential plaintiffs, many of whom were already involved in activism that sought more permanent protections for TPS holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacLean said that’s how she met Morales, who at the time was working at an afterschool care program, and Crista. MacLean said during their first meeting, Crista asked a lot of questions about the lawsuit, and quickly recognized that it had life-changing ramifications for other children in families like hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the very beginning, Crista expressed a willingness to step out of her comfort zone for the protection of her family, but also for the broader impact this lawsuit could have,” said MacLean, with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacLean asked Crista to be the lead plaintiff during a days-long meeting in San Francisco between attorneys and the 14 people who agreed to be plaintiffs, most of whom had traveled from other cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of courage to stand up and say I’m willing to put my name front and center against the Trump administration when something feels unjust,” said MacLean. “She has demonstrated an enormous amount of inner strength, and really sees this as part of the pursuit of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meeting the Pope\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crista’s family said coming out so publicly against the Trump administration has been stressful and feels like a risk, given the president’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because of that initial step, Crista has also lived unexpected moments for a girl from the working-class city of San Pablo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, a nervous Crista stepped onto an airplane for the first time, traveling to Rome to ask Pope Francis for his support and deliver a letter. It asked him to travel to the U.S. and lobby Congress to grant permanent protections for TPS holders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crista did not expect to see the pope up close, let alone shake his hand as she stood with about 10 U.S. citizen children of TPS holders by St. Peter’s Basilica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were seeing him, like, getting closer and I really was freaking out. We were all freaking out,” said Crista, whose parents are devout Catholics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep fighting,” Pope Francis told the children in Spanish. “Migrating is a human right. Is that clear? And nobody can stop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11714402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11714402\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS34532_IMG_0923-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis meets Crista Ramos and other U.S. citizen children of TPS holders at the Vatican in October 2018, days ahead of the canonization of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero. 'Migrating is a human right,' said Pope Francis. \u003ccite>(Contributed by the National TPS Alliance)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inspired to keep going\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At their home in San Pablo, Crista’s parents couldn’t believe their eyes when their cellphones started ringing with photos of a smiling Crista standing inches away from the pope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, one night I was praying to God and asking him to give me strength to show my kids that everything is gonna be OK,” said Morales, “and Crista ended up going to Rome and being next to the pope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crista’s dad, Edgar Ramos, a lector at church, chimed in: “It was everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos said the pope’s message reinforced their hope that the family will prevail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to stay together as a family. We are going to fight until the end as a family,” said Ramos, a foreman who has worked for the same construction company for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the issue plays out in the courts, the parents try to protect their kids with a blanket of never-ending optimism, and focus on what they can control: sticking to their routine of school, work and soccer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos and Morales spend many weekday afternoons and weekends shuttling Crista and her 12-year old brother to soccer practice and matches in nearby Richmond and other cities in the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, we will do everything that is in our hands to keep everything normal for them,” said Morales. “I mean we're not gonna let this government decision (to end TPS) destroy family.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11714388/california-teen-leads-suit-to-keep-hundreds-of-thousands-of-immigrants-in-u-s","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_23138","news_22335"],"featImg":"news_11714393","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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