Temporary Protected Status Supporters to Gather Once Again in Pasadena to Await Ninth District Court Decision

Immigration advocates and supporters awaiting a ruling by the Ninth Circuit in their federal class-action lawsuit are meeting again outside of the federal court in Pasadena on Grand Avenue this morning at 9:30 a.m.

According to the lawsuit, President Trump violated US statutory and constitutional law when he issued an executive order to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS), stripping nearly half a million people of legal status.

Nearly half a million individuals in the country under Temporary Protected Status and mixed status families will be impacted by the ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the cases of Ramos v. Nielsen and Bhattarai v. DHS, the two class action lawsuits that blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to deport TPS communities from six countries – El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan.

In a joint statement, several groups said “TPS holders will be gathering weekly outside the courthouse in Pasadena to remind both the courts and the US public that their lives and families are not temporary.”

The Supreme Court recently decided against an executive order by President Trump which sought to end DACA, also known as “The Dreamer’s Act.” TPS supporters are optimistic that the Ninth District Court will take the Supreme Court’s verdict into consideration while they deliberate their own ruling.