A Haitian-American legislator on Thursday welcomed a federal judge’s ruling in Brooklyn, New York, in favor of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian immigrants. Last Tuesday, Judge Brian M Cogan of Federal District Court in Brooklyn blocked US President Donald Trump from ending TPS for more than 520,

A federal judge in Brooklyn has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end temporary protected status for Haitian migrants ahead of schedule, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security violated the law in its rush to strip deportation protections and work permits from over half a million people.

A federal judge in New York has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal status for more than 500,000 Haitians who are already in the United States. District Court Judge Brian