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Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 03, 2026 12:15 am

So, beginning this week, DHS will ethically cleanse Springfield of its Haitian blight.

Dr. Shades wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 03, 2026 8:05 am

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 03, 2026 12:15 am

So, beginning this week, DHS will ethically cleanse Springfield of its Haitian blight.

Are you sure the cleansing will be ethical?

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 04, 2026 2:37 am

The termination of TPS status was stayed by a U.S. District Judge Monday night. I haven’t read the whole opinion, but it is deservedly harsh on Noem.

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 04, 2026 8:38 am

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 04, 2026 2:37 am

The termination of TPS status was stayed by a U.S. District Judge Monday night. I haven’t read the whole opinion, but it is deservedly harsh on Noem.

According to my google search, they’ve been in-country for 15+ years? Wouldn’t that be enough time for any rational country to determine if the immigrants have assimilated? From an additional search I see that their crime rates are much lower than the surrounding community, so basically a low-risk population. I guess it boils down to they look different, so MAGAs want them out.

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 04, 2026 2:37 am

The termination of TPS status was stayed by a U.S. District Judge Monday night. I haven’t read the whole opinion, but it is deservedly harsh on Noem.

A federal judge in Washington DC on Monday blocked the Trump administration from stripping Temporary Protected Status from up to 350,000 Haitians, which allows them to legally live and work in the United States during the turmoil in their homeland.

Judge Ana Reyes issued a temporary stay that prevents the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, from implementing her decision to remove the status, known as TPS, on Tuesday.

Reyes began her decision by putting the status into historical context. “On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: ‘America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions,’” the judge wrote. “More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.”

Reyes notes that Noem, in announcing her decision on X (formerly known as Twitter), referred to those seeking refuge in the US as “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.”

She then notes that the plaintiffs who asked her to block the order, five Haitian TPS holders, “are not, it emerges, ‘killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.’”

“They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease…; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank…; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department…; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major…; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse”, the judge added. “They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)… and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”

At the end of her decision, Reys wrote:

"Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that."

There has been widespread speculation that, if TPS is removed from Haitians, the Trump administration could move to quickly deport Haitians from Springfield, Ohio, the immigrant community Donald Trump falsely accused, in a 2024 debate, of eating the dogs and cats of longtime residents.

Chap wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 04, 2026 12:12 pm

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 04, 2026 2:37 am

The termination of TPS status was stayed by a U.S. District Judge Monday night. I haven’t read the whole opinion, but it is deservedly harsh on Noem.

This is in the Guardian live news section - the judge is clearly a mistress of ironic prose. I like the distinction she makes between:

"Kristi Noem" who "has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants."

and

"Secretary Noem," who "however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program."

A federal judge in Washington DC on Monday blocked the Trump administration from stripping Temporary Protected Status from up to 350,000 Haitians, which allows them to legally live and work in the United States during the turmoil in their homeland.

Judge Ana Reyes issued a temporary stay that prevents the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, from implementing her decision to remove the status, known as TPS, on Tuesday.

Reyes began her decision by putting the status into historical context. “On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: ‘America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions,’” the judge wrote. “More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.”

Reyes notes that Noem, in announcing her decision on X (formerly known as Twitter), referred to those seeking refuge in the US as “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.”

She then notes that the plaintiffs who asked her to block the order, five Haitian TPS holders, “are not, it emerges, ‘killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.’”

“They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease…; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank…; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department…; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major…; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse”, the judge added. “They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)… and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”

At the end of her decision, Reys wrote:

"Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that."

There has been widespread speculation that, if TPS is removed from Haitians, the Trump administration could move to quickly deport Haitians from Springfield, Ohio, the immigrant community Donald Trump falsely accused, in a 2024 debate, of eating the dogs and cats of longtime residents.