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- 概要
- 法官允许国土安全部终止超过5000名埃塞俄比亚人的临时保护身份
- 法官准许原告继续起诉国土安全部的行为出于种族或族裔歧视动机
- 其他法官近期已批准终止南苏丹、索马里和缅甸公民的临时保护身份
波士顿8月18日路透电 — 一名联邦法官周二允许美国总统唐纳德·特朗普政府终止授予逾5000名埃塞俄比亚人的合法保护身份，该身份允许他们在美国生活和工作。
美国波士顿联邦地区法官布莱恩·墨菲
解除了美国国土安全部终止个别国家临时保护身份的最后一道司法障碍，此前美国最高法院于6月允许政府终止数千名海地和叙利亚公民的类似保护措施。
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最高法院以6票对3票的保守派多数作出的裁决，限制了法官根据特朗普政府时期的做法审查其终止13个国家临时保护身份的能力，这些国家向符合条件的移民提供了人道主义移民保护。
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美国国土安全部总法律顾问詹姆斯·珀西尔在社交媒体帖子中对这一裁决表示欢迎。他写道：“所有临时保护身份终止程序均已生效！”
根据联邦法律，临时保护身份适用于其祖国遭遇自然灾害、武装冲突或其他极端事件的人员。该身份为符合条件的移民提供工作许可和免于递解出境的临时保护。
美国前民主党总统乔·拜登政府于2022年首次为已在美国境内的埃塞俄比亚公民授予该身份，理由是需要保护该国公民免受武装冲突和人道主义苦难。
前国土安全部长克里斯蒂·诺姆领导下的国土安全部于去年12月宣布将终止这些保护措施，理由是当前局势已不再对埃塞俄比亚人安全回国构成严重威胁。
应数名埃塞俄比亚国民和非洲社区合作组织的请求，墨菲法官于今年4月叫停了国土安全部的行动，称其无视法定程序，并为终止保护措施提供了“借口性”理由。
最高法院作出裁决后，墨菲法官发布了新的命令，在他考虑是否继续暂停埃塞俄比亚人的临时保护身份终止程序时，暂时保留了该保护措施，理由是最高法院的裁决未涉及相关问题。
这些争议点包括：1990年颁布的设立临时保护身份的法案仅赋予司法部长延长或终止递解出境保护的权限，而非2001年9月11日袭击事件后成立的国土安全部。
近期涉及南苏丹、缅甸和索马里公民的类似案件中，法官们已驳回了这一论点，墨菲法官周二也作出了同样裁决。
他驳回了该论点及其他主张，但表示将允许原告继续就国土安全部的行动是否出于违反美国宪法第五修正案的种族或族裔歧视动机进行诉讼。
原告方辩称，政府无视埃塞俄比亚境内持续存在的危险局势，终止其临时保护身份是取消非白人和非欧洲裔移民递解出境保护的政策的一部分。
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US judge allows Trump to end thousands of Ethiopians’ deportation protections
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- Summary
- Judge lets DHS end Temporary Protected Status for more than 5,000 Ethiopians
- Judge allows plaintiffs to continue pursuing claim DHS acted with racial or national origin animus
- Other judges have recently let TPS designation end for South Sudan, Somalia and Myanmar
BOSTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday allowed U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to end legal protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live and work in the United States.
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the last remaining judicial block on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security terminating the Temporary Protected Status designation for individual countries after the U.S. Supreme Court in June allowed the administration to end similar protections for thousands of people from Haiti and Syria.
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The Supreme Court’s ruling, powered by its 6-3 conservative majority, curtailed the ability of judges to review DHS efforts under Trump to end TPS designations for 13 countries that provided humanitarian immigration protection to eligible migrants from those nations.
The plaintiffs did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
James Percival, DHS’s general counsel, in a social media post hailed the decision. “All TPS terminations are in effect!” he wrote.
TPS under federal law is available to people whose home countries have experienced natural disasters, armed conflicts or other extraordinary events. It provides eligible migrants with work authorization and temporary protection from deportation.
Former Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration first granted Ethiopians already in the United States that status beginning in 2022, citing the need to protect the African nation’s citizens from armed conflict and humanitarian suffering.
DHS under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced in December it would end those protections on the grounds that conditions no longer posed a serious threat to Ethiopians returning safely.
At the request of several Ethiopian nationals and the group African Communities Together, Murphy in April blocked DHS’s action, saying it disregarded statutory procedures and provided a “pretextual” rationale for ending the protections.
After the Supreme Court ruled, Murphy issued a new order that continued to temporarily block the end of the Ethiopians’ TPS while he considered whether to continue to halt DHS’s action on grounds that the Supreme Court’s ruling did not address.
Those arguments included that the 1990 statute creating TPS gave only the attorney general authority to extend or terminate the deportation protections, not DHS, which was established later after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Judges in similar cases involving people from South Sudan, Myanmar and Somalia have rejected that argument in recent days, and Murphy did as well on Tuesday.
He dismissed that and other claims, but he said he would allow the plaintiffs to continue to litigate over whether DHS’s action was motivated by racial or national origin animus in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment.
The plaintiffs argued that the administration ignored how dangerous conditions persist in Ethiopia and that the termination of its TPS designation was part of a practice of eliminating deportation protections for people who are non-white and non-European.
Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Aurora Ellis
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