Liberians Lose Suit Over Trump’s End of Immigration Protections

The courts don’t have the power to force the president to maintain immigration protections for Liberian nationals even if his decision to end those protections was motivated by racism, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled.

The authority to grant deferred enforced departure “comes from the executive branch’s constitutional power to conduct foreign affairs, and ‘the conduct of foreign affairs’ is a realm entrusted to the President,” Judge Timothy S. Hillman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts said Oct. 25. “Given the inherently executive nature of DED, the Court does not see any way it may lawfully ...