Judge Wants More Documents on Nixed Haiti Immigrant Protections

A Washington, DC federal judge will require the government to produce additional documents involving the termination of protections for several hundred thousand Haitian immigrants in the US.

Judge Ana C. Reyes outlined plans Wednesday to order narrow discovery in a challenge to the Trump administration’s removal of Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitian migrants after spending the previous day reviewing the administrative record in the case. That record raised concerns that the termination decision by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was preordained, Reyes said.

“I don’t know that it is bad faith. I haven’t made that determination yet,” she ...